''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 ...
s,
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
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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
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.
Species
Species within the genus ''Tropidotera'' include:
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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:
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Tropidoptera discus
''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:
* ''Tropidoptera ...
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* ''
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 ...
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Tropidoptera rex
''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:
* ''Tropidoptera ...
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Tropidoptera wesleyi''
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus info
Amastridae
Taxa named by César Marie Félix Ancey
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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