Opeas is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.[2]

Opeas
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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Opeas

Albers, 1850[1]

Opeas is the type genus of the subfamily Opeatinae.[3]

Species edit

The genus Opeas includes the following species:

References edit

  1. ^ Albers (1850). Die Heliceen, page 175.
  2. ^ Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the world. Last update: July 16, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  3. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. ^ a b c d Barrientos, Zaidett (2003). "Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical. 51: 293–304.

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