Tornatellides
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| Tornatellides | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Achatinellidae |
| Genus: | Tornatellides Pilsbry, 1910 |
| Species | |
| See text. | |
Tornatellides is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks, or micromolluscs in the family Achatinellidae.
Distribution[edit]
This genus is endemic to the islands of the South Pacific.
Predators[edit]
Individuals of the Hawaiian species are preyed upon by caterpillars of the moth Hyposmocoma molluscivora.
Species[edit]
Species within the genus Tornatellides include:
- Tornatellides attenuatus
- Tornatellides bellus
- Tornatellides boeningi (Schmacker and Boettger, 1891)
- Tornatellides brunneus
- Tornatellides bryani
- Tornatellides comes
- Tornatellides compactus
- Tornatellides confusus
- Tornatellides cyphostyla
- Tornatellides diptyx
- Tornatellides drepanophorus
- Tornatellides euryomphala
- Tornatellides forbesi
- Tornatellides frit
- Tornatellides idae
- Tornatellides inornatus
- Tornatellides insignis
- Tornatellides irregularis
- Tornatellides kahoolavensis
- Tornatellides kahukuensis
- Tornatellides kamaloensis
- Tornatellides kilauea
- Tornatellides konaensis
- Tornatellides leptospira
- Tornatellides lordhowensis
- Tornatellides macromphala
- Tornatellides macroptychia
- Tornatellides moomomiensis
- Tornatellides neckeri
- Tornatellides oahuensis
- Tornatellides oncospira
- Tornatellides oswaldi
- Tornatellides perkinsi
- Tornatellides pilsbryi
- Tornatellides plagioptyx
- Tornatellides popouelensis
- Tornatellides prionoptychia
- Tornatellides procerulus
- Tornatellides productus
- Tornatellides pyramidatus
- Tornatellides ronaldi
- Tornatellides rudicostatus
- Tornatellides serrarius
- Tornatellides spaldingi
- Tornatellides stokesi
- Tornatellides subangulatus
- Tornatellides subperforata
- Tornatellides terebra
- Tornatellides tryoni
- Tornatellides virgula
- Tornatellides vitreus
- Tornatellides waianaensis
References[edit]
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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