Subulininae is a subfamily of small

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air-breathing land snails,

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pulmonate gastropod

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s in the family

Achatinidae Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "''agate''") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa. Well known species include ''Achatina achatina'' the Giant African Snail, and ''Liss ...

Distribution

Worldwide."Family summary for Subulinidae"

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, last modified 21-02-2006, accessed 15 March 2011.

Anatomy

In this subfamily, the number of haploid

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s lies between 26 and 35 (according to the values in this table).Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: ''Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology''. in Barker G. M. (ed.):
The biology of terrestrial molluscs
'. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.

Genera

Genera in the subfamily Subulininae include: * '' Allopeas'' H. B. Baker, 1935 * '' Beckianum'' Baker, 1961"Mollusca"
. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011. * '' Curvella'' Chaper, 1885 * '' Dysopeas'' Baker, 1927Baker, Horace B. 1930: The mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela. Occasional Paper of Museum of zoology. 210:1-51 * '' Euonyma'' Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896 * '' Hypolysia'' Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901 * '' Lamellaxis'' Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882 * '' Leptinaria'' Beck, 1837 * '' Leptopeas'' Baker, 1927 * '' Micropeas'' Connolly, 1923 * '' Neoglessula'' Pilsbry, 1909 *

Opeas ''Opeas'' is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae. ''Opeas'' is the type genus of the subfamily Opeatinae. Species The genus ''Opeas'' includes the follo ...

Albers, 1850 * '' Paropeas'' Pilsbry, 1906Naggs F. (1994). "The reproductive anatomy of ''Paropeas achatinaceum'' and a new concept of ''Paropeas'' (Pulmonata: Achatinoidea: Subulinidae)". ''

Journal of Molluscan Studies The ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Malacological Society of London, covering research in malacology.

'' 60(2): 175-191. . * '' Pelatrinia'' Pilsbry, 1907 * '' Prosopeas'' Mörch, 1876 * '' Pseudoglessula'' Boettger, 1892 * '' Pseudopeas'' Putzeys, 1899 * '' Striosubulina'' Thiele, 1933 * '' Subulina'' Beck, 1837 - type genus of the subfamily Subulininae * '' Vegrandinia'' Salvador, Cunha & Simone, 2013 * '' Zootecus'' Westerlund, 1887"Genus summary for ''Zootecus''"
AnimalBase, accessed 11 october 2010.

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