Allopeas gracile

Allopeas gracile, common name the graceful awlsnail,[1] is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.[2]

Allopeas gracile
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Subfamily:	Subulininae
Genus:	Allopeas
Species:	A. gracile
Binomial name
Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)
Synonyms
Lamellaxis gracilis (Hutton, 1834)

Distribution

Allopeas gracile occurs throughout the tropics and subtropics worldwide.[3]

• Hawaii & islands of Polynesia (naturalized)[4]
• West Indies[3]
• southern Mexico[3]
• Central and South America[3]
• Dominica - introduced.[3] First reported in 2009.[3]
• Tanzania[5]

It is also found living in greenhouses in other areas, as a "hothouse exotic".

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[3]

1. "Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
2. Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
3. Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
4. http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=9090
5. Rowson B., Warren B. H. & Ngereza C. F. (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island". ZooKeys 70: 1-39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.70.762.