Allopeas

Allopeas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Subulinidae
Subfamily: Subulininae
Genus: Allopeas
H. B. Baker, 1935[1]
Synonyms

Lamellaxis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882[2]

Allopeas, common name the "awl snails", is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Subulinidae.

Species

The genus Allopeas includes the following species:

References

  1. ^ Baker H. B. (1935). "Jamaican land snails, 3." Nautilus 48(3): 84.
  2. ^ Strebel H. & Pfeffer (1882). Beitr. Mexik. Land- u. Süssw. Conch. 5: 109.
  3. ^ "Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez and Michaud, 1838)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  5. ^ Naggs F. (1992). "Tortaxis Pilsbry, 1906 and Allopeas Baker, 1935 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation by the designation of a neotype for Achatina erecta Benson, 1842". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49: 258-260.
  6. ^ "Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  7. ^ Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13