''Ditropopsis'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of small land snails with a

gill A gill () is a respiratory organ that many aquatic organisms use to extract dissolved oxygen from water and to excrete carbon dioxide. The gills of some species, such as hermit crabs, have adapted to allow respiration on land provided they ar ...

and an operculum,

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...

gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

s in the family

Cyclophoridae Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenioglossa belonging to the subclass Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropo ...

Distribution

Distribution of the genus ''Ditropopsis'' include

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...

.Greke K. (2011). "Species of ''Ditropopsis'' E.A.Smith, 1897 (Architaenioglossa: Cyclophoridae) from the Papuan region". pp. 69-76. In: Telnov D. ''Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Volume I.'', The Entomological Society of Latvia, Riga, 526 pp.

Species

Species within the genus ''Ditropopsis'' include: * ''

Ditropopsis fultoni ''Ditropopsis'' is a genus of small land snails with a gill and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae. Distribution Distribution of the genus ''Ditropopsis'' include New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Mo ...

'' E. A. Smith, 1897 * '' Ditropopsis papuana'' E. A. Smith, 1897

References

Cyclophoridae {{Cyclophoridae-stub