''Tubuaia'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of 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 molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
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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 o ...
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 inclu ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Achatinellidae
Achatinellidae is a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Taxonomy
It was previously the only family in the superfamily Achatinelloidea (according to the tax ...
.
Species
There are 18 species plus several subspecies. The 18 species are as follows:
[Kondo, Y. 1962: The genus ''Tubuaia'' (Pulmonata, Achatinellidae). ''Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin'', (224)]
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Tubuaia affinis''
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Tubuaia amoebodonta''
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Tubuaia bakerorum''
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Tubuaia coprophora''
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Tubuaia cremnobates''
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Tubuaia cylindrata''
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Tubuaia fosbergi''
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Tubuaia garrettiana''
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Tubuaia gouldi''
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Tubuaia hendersoni''
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Tubuaia hygrobia''
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Tubuaia inconstans''
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Tubuaia myojinae''
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Tubuaia perplexa''
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Tubuaia raoulensis''
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Tubuaia saintjohni''
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Tubuaia saproderma''
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Tubuaia voyana''
References
Gastropod genera
Molluscs of Oceania
Helicarionidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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