Hirasea

Hirasea is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Charopidae,[2] or Endodontidae:[3] this genus sees its highest diversity in the Hawaiian Islands.

Hirasea
Hirasea sinuosa shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Punctoidea
Family:
Endodontidae
Subfamily:
Thysanotinae
Genus:
Hirasea

Taxonomy

Henry Augustus Pilsbry classified this genus in 1902 like this:[1]

This genus belongs apparently in Zonitidae, or possibly to the Endodontidae.

Species

Species within the genus Hirasea include:

References
  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1902). "Notices of new Japanese land shells". The Nautilus 15: 116-119. 118.
  2. Bank, R. (2017). Hirasea Pilsbry, 1902. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996012 on 2017-11-16
  3. https://www.gbif.org/species/4598729


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