Rhodea

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Rhodea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Achatinina
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Subfamily: Stenogyrinae
Genus: Rhodea
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 [1]
Diversity [2] [3]
9 species

Rhodea is a genus of land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae. [4] [3] [5]

Contents

Authors of the genus provided no information about the etymology of this genus and its etymology remains unknown. [6]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Rhodea include Colombia [3] and Ecuador. [5] [6]

Species

Species within the genus Rhodea include:

See also

A plant genus Rohdea is sometimes misspelled as Rhodea.

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References

  1. Adams H. & Adams A. (1855). Gen. Rec. Moll.2: 135.
  2. 1 2 "Photo of the day (74): Rhodea". Bram's Snail Site, published 26 October 2009, accessed 1 April 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Grego J., Šteffek J. & Infante A. P. (2007). "Review of the genus Rhodea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Subulinidae), with description of two new species from Colombia". Basteria 71(1-3): 13-28. abstract.
  4. Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017. . World Register of Marine Species , Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 "New paper on Rhodea". Ashbreure's posterous, published 1 April 2011, accessed 1 April 2011.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Pilsbry H. A. (1958). "A Colombian species of the Genus Rhodea". The Nautilus71(3): 83-84, plate 9.

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