Allopeas

Allopeas, common name the "awl snails", is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.[3]

Allopeas
Allopeas gracile
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Allopeas

Synonyms

Lamellaxis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882[2]

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 G.J. (1882). Beitr. Mexik. Land- u. Süssw. Conch. 5: 109.
  3. 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.
  4. "Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez and Michaud, 1838)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  5. "Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  6. 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.
  7. "Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  8. 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
  9. 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.


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