Allopeas gracile

Allopeas gracile
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
Species: A. gracile
Binomial name
Allopeas gracile
(Hutton, 1834)
Synonyms

Lamellaxis gracilis (Hutton, 1834)

Allopeas gracile, common name the graceful awlsnail,[1] is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.

Distribution

Allopeas gracile occurs throughout the (sub)tropics worldwide.[2]

It is also found living in greenhouses in other areas, as a "hothouse exotic".

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[2]

  1. "Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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
  3. http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=9090
  4. Rowson B., Warren B. H. & Ngereza C. F. (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island". ZooKeys 70: 1-39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.70.762.


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