Allopeas
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Genus: | Allopeas H. B. Baker, 1935[1]
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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]
Species
The genus Allopeas includes the following species:
- Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) - spike awlsnail[4]
- Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834) - graceful awlsnail[5] - type species[6]
- Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852) - Mauritian awlsnail[7]
- Allopeas micra (d’Orbigny, 1835)[8]
- Allopeas myrmekophilos R. Janssen, 2002[9]
References
- ^ Baker H. B. (1935). "Jamaican land snails, 3." Nautilus 48(3): 84.
- ^ Strebel, H., & Pfeffer G.J. (1882). Beitr. Mexik. Land- u. Süssw. Conch. 5: 109.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
- ^ 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 it gets around by mimicing the smells and noises an ant larva makes so it can be fed and looked after however getting bits of other insects isnt enough for its hunger and has been known to devour the army ants brood Leptogenys distinguenda (Formicidae, Ponerinae)". Insectes Sociaux. 49 (4): 301–305. doi:10.1007/PL00012646.
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