''Tornatellinops'' is a
genus of minute 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 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, or
micromollusk
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...
s in the
family Achatinellidae.
Distribution
This genus is
endemic to islands of the
South Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Tornatellinops'' include:
* ''
Tornatellinops inconspicua''
(Brazier, 1872)
* ''
Tornatellinops iredalei''
(Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915)
* ''
Tornatellinops jacksonensis''
(Cox, 1864)
* ''
Tornatellinops lidgbirdensis''
(Iredale, 1944)
* ''
Tornatellinops mastersi''
(Brazier, 1876)
* ''
Tornatellinops moluccana''
Boettger, 1891
* ''
Tornatellinops moohuensis''
(Preston, 1913)
* ''
Tornatellinops nepeanensis''
(Preston, 1913)
* ''
Tornatellinops norfolkensis''
(Preston, 1913)
* ''
Tornatellinops novoseelandica''
(Pfeiffer, 1853)
* ''
Tornatellinops ponapensis''
* ''
Tornatellinops pressus''
Iredale, 1940
References
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
NZ Molluscan ChecklistOBIS
Tornatellinops,
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