Opeas

Opeas is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.[2]

Opeas
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:
Opeatinae
Genus:
Opeas

Albers, 1850[1]

Opeas is the type genus of the subfamily Opeatinae.[3]

Species

The genus Opeas includes the following species:

  • Opeas bocourtianum bocourtianum Crosse  & Fischer, 1869[4]
  • Opeas bocourtianum pittieri Martens, 1898[4]
  • Opeas clavulinum
  • Opeas funiculare
  • Opeas gracile
  • Opeas guatemalense Strebel, 1882[4]
  • Opeas pumilum Pfeiffer, 1840[4]
  • Opeas pyrgula Schumacker & Boettger, 1891
  • Opeas setchuanense
  • Opeas striatissimum
  • Opeas utriculus

References
  1. Albers (1850). Die Heliceen, page 175.
  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. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.


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