Hirasea is a genus of small, pulmonate land snails in the family Charopidae.[2] This genus sees its highest diversity in the Hawaiian Islands, but species are distributed throughout Japan and Polynesia.

Hirasea
Hirasea sinuosa shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Charopidae
Subfamily: Thysanotinae
Genus: Hirasea
Pilsbry, 1902[1]

Species edit

The following species are recognised in the genus Hirasea:[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1902). "Notices of new Japanese land shells". The Nautilus 15: 116-119. 118.
  2. ^ Bank, R. (2017). Hirasea Pilsbry, 1902. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996012 on 2017-11-16
  3. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Hirasea Pilsbry, 1902". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  4. ^ Chiba S., Davison A. & Mori H. (2007) "Endemic Land Snail Fauna (Mollusca) on a Remote Peninsula in the Ogasawara Archipelago, Northwestern Pacific". Pacific Science 61(2): 257–265. doi:10.2984/1534-6188(2007)61[257:ELSFMO2.0.CO;2].
  5. ^ Group, Mollusc Specialist (1996-08-01). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Hirasea biconcava". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2021-03-04.