''Tropidoptera'' is a genus of small, 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 ...

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 Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

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 Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s in the family

Amastridae Amastridae is a taxonomic family of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Amastridae Pilsbry, 1910. Accessed through: World Register ...

. It is endemic to the

Hawaiian Islands The Hawaiian Islands ( haw, Nā Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kur ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Tropidotera'' include: * ''

Tropidoptera alata ''Tropidoptera'' is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Amastridae. It is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Species Species within the genus ''Tropidotera'' include: * '' Tropidopter ...

'' * '' Tropidoptera discus'' * ''

Tropidoptera heliciformis ''Tropidoptera heliciformis'' is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Amastridae. This species is endemic to Oahu Oahu () ( Hawaiian: ''Oʻahu'' ()), also known as "The Gat ...

'' * '' Tropidoptera rex'' * '' Tropidoptera wesleyi''

References

Nomenclator Zoologicus info
Amastridae Taxa named by César Marie Félix Ancey Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Amastridae-stub