''Sinployea'' is a
genus of small air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
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
Charopidae
Charopidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Charopidae ...
.
[Marshall, B. (2015). Sinployea. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818554 on 2016-04-07]
Species
Species in the genus ''Sinployea'' include:
* ''
Sinployea atiensis''
* ''
Sinployea andrewi''
* ''
Sinployea avanaensis''
* ''
Sinployea canalis'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea decorticata'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea ellicensis''
* ''
Sinployea harveyensis
''Sinployea harveyensis'' was a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Charopidae. This species was endemic to the Cook Islands; it is now extinct
Extinction is the termination o ...
'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea kusaieana''
* ''
Sinployea nissani'' (Dell, 1955)
* ''
Sinployea otareae
''Sinployea otareae'' was a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Charopidae. This species was endemic to the Cook Islands; it is now extinct
Extinction is the termination of a ...
'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea peasei'' Solem, 1983
- the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...
* ''
Sinployea pitcairnensis''
* ''
Sinployea planospira'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea proxima'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea pseudovicaria''
* ''
Sinployea rotumana''
* ''
Sinployea rudis'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea tenuicostata'' - extinct
* ''
Sinployea youngi'' - extinct
References
Gastropod genera
Fauna of the Cook Islands
Molluscs of Oceania
Charopidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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