Chilonopsis
Appearance
Chilonopsis | |
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Chilonopsis nonpareil | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Achatinina |
Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
Family: | Achatinidae |
Subfamily: | Petriolinae |
Genus: | †Chilonopsis Fischer de Waldheim, 1848[1] |
Chilonopsis is an extinct genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae. All species were found on Saint Helena[2]
Species
Species within the genus Chilonopsis include:
- Chilonopsis blofeldi
- Chilonopsis exulatus
- Chilonopsis helena
- Chilonopsis melanoides
- Chilonopsis nonpareil
- Chilonopsis subplicatus
- Chilonopsis subtruncatus
- Chilonopsis turtoni
References
- ^ Fischer de Waldheim (1848). Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 21(1): 233, 236.
- ^ Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.