Allopeas
| Allopeas | |
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| Allopeas gracile | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Subfamily: | Subulininae |
| Genus: | Allopeas H. B. Baker, 1935[1] |
| Type species | |
| Bulimus gracilis T. Hutton, 1834 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Allopeas, common name the "awl snails", is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.[2]
Species
[edit]The genus Allopeas includes the following species:
- Allopeas acmella (Morelet, 1885)
- † Allopeas agnolini Miquel, 2024
- Allopeas brevispira (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
- Allopeas cavernicola (Annandale & Chopra, 1924)
- Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) - spike awlsnail[4]
- Allopeas franzhuberi Thach, 2021
- Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834) - graceful awlsnail[5] - type species[6]
- Allopeas hedeius (Mabille, 1887)
- Allopeas heudei (Pilsbry, 1906)
- Allopeas latebricola (Reeve, 1849)
- Allopeas mariae (Jousseaume, 1894)
- Allopeas micra (d'Orbigny, 1835)[7]
- Allopeas myrmekophilos R. Janssen, 2002[8]
- Allopeas prestoni (Sykes, 1898)
- Allopeas pusillum (H. Adams, 1867)
- Allopeas recisa (Morelet, 1885)
- Allopeas satsumense (Pilsbry, 1906)
- Allopeas subula (L. Pfeiffer, 1839)
- Allopeas sykesi (Pilsbry, 1906)
- Synonyms
- Allopeas gracilis [sic]: synonym of Allopeas gracile (T. Hutton, 1834) (incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Allopeas javanicum (Reeve, 1849): synonym of Paropeas achatinaceum (L. Pfeiffer, 1846) (junior synonym)
- Allopeas layardi (W. H. Benson, 1863): synonym of Eutomopeas layardi (W. H. Benson, 1863) (unaccepted combination)
- Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852) - Mauritian awlsnail:[9] synonym of Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) (junior subjective synonym)
- Allopeas oparanum (L. Pfeiffer, 1846): synonym of Allopeas gracile (T. Hutton, 1834)
- Allopeas pyrgiscus (L. Pfeiffer, 1861): synonym of Allopeas gracile (T. Hutton, 1834) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Allopeas pyrgula (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1891): synonym of Opeas pyrgula Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1891 (superseded combination)
References
[edit]- ^ Baker H. B. (1935). "Jamaican land snails, 3." Nautilus 48(3): 84.
- ^ a b Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ Strebel, H., & Pfeffer G.J. (1882). Beitr. Mexik. Land- u. Süssw. Conch. 5: 109.
- ^ "Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez and Michaud, 1838)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
- ^ "Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Witte V.; Janssen R.; Eppenstein A.; Maschwitz U. (2002). "Allopeas myrmekophilos (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), the first myrmecophilous mollusc living in colonies of the ponerine army ant Leptogenys distinguenda (Formicidae, Ponerinae)". Insectes Sociaux. 49 (4): 301–305. doi:10.1007/PL00012646.
- ^ "Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
- Baker, H.B. (1935). "Jamaican land snails, 3". The Nautilus. 48 (3): 84.
- Bank, R.A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.
- Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. vi. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.
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