''Paropeas'' is a
genus of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.
The subgenus ''Paropeas'' within the genus ''Prosopeas'' was elevated to generic status in 1994, based on the anatomy of ''Paropeas achatinaceum''.
[Naggs F. (1994). "The reproductive anatomy of ''Paropeas achatinaceum'' and a new concept of ''Paropeas'' (Pulmonata: Achatinoidea: Subulinidae)". ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' 60(2): 175-191. .]
Species
Species within the genus ''Paropeas'' include:
* ''Paropeas achatinaceum''
* ''Paropeas tchehelense''
References
External links
Abstract of a paper on this genus
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Subulininae