Tornatellides
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Tornatellides is a genus
of minute, air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
gastropod mollusks, or micromolluscs in the family
Achatinellidae
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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 minute, air-breathing land snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
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...
gastropod mollusks, or micromolluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Achatinellidae
Achatinellidae
Achatinellidae is a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinelloidea.- Taxonomy :...
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Predators
These very small snails are preyed upon by caterpillars of the moth Hyposmocoma molluscivoraHyposmocoma molluscivora
Hyposmocoma molluscivora is a Hawaiian moth whose larvae are predators, capturing snails in their silk, much like a hunting spider's web, and then crawling inside the snail's shell to eat it alive...
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Species
Species within the genus Tornatellides include:- Tornatellides attenuatus
- Tornatellides bellus
- Tornatellides brunneus
- Tornatellides bryani
- Tornatellides comes
- Tornatellides compactus
- Tornatellides confusus
- Tornatellides cyphostyla
- Tornatellides diptyx
- Tornatellides drepanophorus
- Tornatellides euryomphala
- Tornatellides forbesi
- Tornatellides frit
- Tornatellides idae
- Tornatellides inornatus
- Tornatellides insignis
- Tornatellides irregularis
- Tornatellides kahoolavensis
- Tornatellides kahukuensis
- Tornatellides kamaloensis
- Tornatellides kilauea
- Tornatellides konaensis
- Tornatellides leptospira
- Tornatellides macromphala
- Tornatellides macroptychia
- Tornatellides moomomiensis
- Tornatellides neckeri
- Tornatellides oahuensis
- Tornatellides oncospira
- Tornatellides oswaldi
- Tornatellides perkinsi
- Tornatellides pilsbryi
- Tornatellides plagioptyx
- Tornatellides popouelensis
- Tornatellides prionoptychia
- Tornatellides procerulus
- Tornatellides productus
- Tornatellides pyramidatus
- Tornatellides ronaldi
- Tornatellides rudicostatus
- Tornatellides serrarius
- Tornatellides spaldingi
- Tornatellides stokesi
- Tornatellides subangulatus
- Tornatellides subperforataTornatellides subperforataTornatellides subperforata, is a species of minute, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk, or micromollusk, in the family Achatinellidae.-References:...
- Tornatellides terebra
- Tornatellides tryoni
- Tornatellides virgula
- Tornatellides vitreus
- Tornatellides waianaensis