Napaeus is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of air-breathing land snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Enidae

Enidae

Enidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.- Anatomy :In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 25 .- 1998 taxonomy :...

.

Distribution

Napaeus is endemic to the Macaronesia

Macaronesia

Macaronesia is a modern collective name for several groups of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean near Europe and North Africa belonging to three countries: Portugal, Spain, and Cape Verde...

 ecoregion: Azores

Azores

The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...

 and Canary Islands.

Species

There are recognized two subgenera Napaeus Albers, 1850 and Napaeinus Hesse, 1933.

Species within the genus Napaeus include 18 species on the Tenerife, 17 species on the La Gomera and others. Addtinally here were described 9 new species in 2011.

• Napaeus alucensis Santana & Yanes, 2011- on La Gomera
• Napaeus aringaensis Yanes et al., 2011
• Napaeus baeticatus (Webb & Berthelot, 1833) - type species
• Napaeus barquini
  Napaeus barquini
  Napaeus barquini is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Enidae.- Distribution :This species is endemic to La Gomera in the Canary Islands.- Ecology :Napaeus barquini lives on open rocks....
  
  Alonso & Ibáñez, 2006
• Napaeus gomerensis G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2011 - on La Gomera
• Napaeus grohi Yanes et al., 2011
• Napaeus isletae
  Napaeus isletae
  Napaeus isletae is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Enidae. This species is endemic to Spain....
  
  Groh & Ibanez, 1992
• Napaeus josei Yanes et al., 2011
• Napaeus lajaensis Castillo et al., 2006
• Napaeus moroi Martín, Alonso & Ibáñez, 2011 - La Gomera
• Napaeus nanodes
  Napaeus nanodes
  Napaeus nanodes is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Enidae. This species is endemic to Spain....
  
  Shuttleworth, 1852
• Napaeus pygmaeus
  Napaeus pygmaeus
  Napaeus pygmaeus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Enidae. This species is endemic to Spain....
  
  Ibanez & Alonso, 1993
• Napaeus torilensis Artiles & Deniz, 2011 - on La Gomera
• Napaeus validoi Yanes et al., 2011
• Napaeus venegueraensis Yanes et al., 2011

• two new Napaeus species

Further reading

• Alonso M. R., Henríquez F. & Ibáñez M. (1995). "Revision of the species group Napaeus variatus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Buliminidae) from the Canary Islands, with description of five new species". Zool Scr 24: 303-320.
• Yanes Y., Martín J., Moro L., Alonso M. R. & Ibáñez M. (2009). "On the relationships of the genus Napaeus (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae), with the description of four new species from the Canary Islands". Journal of Natural History
  Journal of Natural History
  The Journal of Natural History is a scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis focusing on entomology and zoology. The journal was established in 1841 under the name Annals and Magazine of Natural History and obtained its current title in 1967...
  
  43(35): 2179-2207.

External links

• "Species in genus Napaeus". AnimalBase.