''Sinployea'' is a
genus
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of small air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
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
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s in the family
Charopidae
Charopidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as '' Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Charopidae Hu ...
.
[Marshall, B. (2015). Sinployea. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818554 on 2016-04-07]
Species
Species in the genus ''Sinployea'' include:
* ''
Sinployea atiensis''
* ''
Sinployea andrewi
''Sinployea'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Charopidae.Marshall, B. (2015). Sinployea. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marin ...
''
* ''
Sinployea avanaensis''
* ''
Sinployea canalis'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea decorticata'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea ellicensis''
* ''
Sinployea harveyensis'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea kusaieana''
* ''
Sinployea nissani'' (Dell, 1955)
* ''
Sinployea otareae'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea peasei'' Solem, 1983
- the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
* ''
Sinployea pitcairnensis''
* ''
Sinployea planospira'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea proxima'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea pseudovicaria''
* ''
Sinployea rotumana''
* ''
Sinployea rudis'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea tenuicostata'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea youngi'' - extinct
References
Gastropod genera
Fauna of the Cook Islands
Molluscs of Oceania
Charopidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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