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Tornatellides

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

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

clade Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Achatinelloidea
Family:
Achatinellidae
Genus:
Tornatellides

Pilsbry, 1910
Species

See text.

Tornatellides is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks, or micromolluscs in the family Achatinellidae.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to the islands of the South Pacific.

Predators

These very small snails are preyed upon by caterpillars of the moth Hyposmocoma molluscivora.

Species

Species within the genus Tornatellides include:

References

  • Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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