Paropeas is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.[1]
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Genus: | Paropeas Pilsbry, 1903
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The subgenus Paropeas within the genus Prosopeas was elevated to generic status in 1994, based on the anatomy of Paropeas achatinaceum.[2]
Species edit
Species within the genus Paropeas include:
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ Naggs F. (1994). "The reproductive anatomy of Paropeas achatinaceum and a new concept of Paropeas (Pulmonata: Achatinoidea: Subulinidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 60(2): 175-191. doi:10.1093/mollus/60.2.175.