''Tornatellides'' is a
genus
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of minute, air-breathing
land snail
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s,
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 ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s, or
micromollusc
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s in the
family
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Achatinellidae
Achatinellidae is a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Taxonomy
It was previously the only family in the superfamily Achatinelloidea (according to the taxonomy ...
.
Distribution
This genus is
endemic
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to the islands of the
South Pacific.
Predators
Individuals of the Hawaiian species are preyed upon by caterpillars of the moth ''
Hyposmocoma molluscivora
''Hyposmocoma molluscivora'' is a Hawaiian moth whose larvae are predators, capturing snails in their silk, much like a hunting spider's web, and then crawling inside the snail's shell to eat it alive. It has been called the snail-eating caterpil ...
''.
Species
Species within the genus ''Tornatellides'' include:
* ''
Tornatellides attenuatus''
* ''
Tornatellides bellus''
* ''
Tornatellides boeningi'' (Schmacker and Boettger, 1891)
* ''
Tornatellides brunneus''
* ''
Tornatellides bryani''
* ''
Tornatellides comes''
* ''
Tornatellides compactus''
* ''
Tornatellides confusus''
* ''
Tornatellides cyphostyla''
* ''
Tornatellides diptyx''
* ''
Tornatellides drepanophorus''
* ''
Tornatellides euryomphala''
* ''
Tornatellides forbesi''
* ''
Tornatellides frit''
* ''
Tornatellides idae''
* ''
Tornatellides inornatus''
* ''
Tornatellides insignis''
* ''
Tornatellides irregularis''
* ''
Tornatellides kahoolavensis''
* ''
Tornatellides kahukuensis''
* ''
Tornatellides kamaloensis''
* ''
Tornatellides kilauea''
* ''
Tornatellides konaensis''
* ''
Tornatellides leptospira''
* ''
Tornatellides lordhowensis''
* ''
Tornatellides macromphala''
* ''
Tornatellides macroptychia''
* ''
Tornatellides moomomiensis''
* ''
Tornatellides neckeri''
* ''
Tornatellides oahuensis''
* ''
Tornatellides oncospira''
* ''
Tornatellides oswaldi''
* ''
Tornatellides perkinsi''
* ''
Tornatellides pilsbryi''
* ''
Tornatellides plagioptyx''
* ''
Tornatellides popouelensis''
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Tornatellides prionoptychia''
* ''
Tornatellides procerulus''
* ''
Tornatellides productus''
* ''
Tornatellides pyramidatus''
* ''
Tornatellides ronaldi''
* ''
Tornatellides rudicostatus''
* ''
Tornatellides serrarius''
* ''
Tornatellides spaldingi''
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Tornatellides stokesi''
* ''
Tornatellides subangulatus''
* ''
Tornatellides subperforata''
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Tornatellides terebra''
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Tornatellides tryoni''
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Tornatellides virgula''
* ''
Tornatellides vitreus''
* ''
Tornatellides waianaensis''
References
*
Powell A W B, ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Tornatellides,
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