Ennea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

Ennea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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Family:
Subfamily:
Genus:
Ennea

Type species
Pupa elegantula L. Pfeiffer, 1846
Synonyms
  • Carychiopsis E. von Martens, 1895
  • Ennea (Carychiopsis) E. von Martens, 1895
  • Ennea (Enneastrum) L. Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Enneastrum L. Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Pupa (Ennea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (original rank)

Ennea is the type genus of the subfamily Enneinae.[3]

Distribution

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The distribution of the genus Ennea is Afrotropical[2] and includes:

Species

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Species within the genus Ennea include:

Species brought into synonymy:

  • Ennea aliena Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912: synonym of Indoennea aliena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) accepted as Sinoennea aliena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) (original combination)

References

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  1. ^ Adams (1855). Gen. Rec. Moll. 2: 171.
  2. ^ a b Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
  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.
  • Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
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