''Carelia'' was a
genus
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of small, air-breathing,
land snails,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the family
Amastridae
Amastridae is a taxonomic family of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Amastridae Pilsbry, 1910. Accessed through: World Register ...
and superfamily
Cochlicopoidea
Pupilloidea is a superfamily of small and very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the infraorder ''Pupilloidei'' .
Taxonomy
This superfamily contains the following families:
* Achatinellidae Gulick, 1873
* Agar ...
. Snails in this genus were
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to the
Hawaiian Islands.
Species
Species within the genus ''Carelia'' include:
* ''
Carelia anceophila''
* ''
Carelia bicolor''
* ''
Carelia cochlea''
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Carelia cumingiana''
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Carelia dolei''
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Carelia evelynae''
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Carelia glossema''
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Carelia hyattiana''
* ''
Carelia kalalauensis''
* ''
Carelia knudseni''
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Carelia lirata''
* ''
Carelia lymani''
* ''
Carelia mirabilis''
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Carelia necra''
* ''
Carelia olivacea''
* ''
Carelia paradoxa''
* ''
Carelia periscelis''
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Carelia pilsbryi''
* ''
Carelia sinclairi''
* ''
Carelia tenebrosa''
* ''
Carelia turricula''
References
* ARKive info here
Carelia (gastropod),
Amastridae
Extinct gastropods
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