Taheitia is a genus of very small land snails that have an operculum and live near saltwater, maritime terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Truncatellidae.[2]
| Taheitia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Truncatellidae |
| Subfamily: | Truncatellinae |
| Genus: | Taheitia Adams, 1863[1] |
Species edit
Species within the genus Taheitia include:
- Taheitia alata
- Taheitia elongata (Poey in Pfeiffer, 1856)[2]
- Taheitia filicosta (Gundlach in Poey, 1858)[2]
- Taheitia lamellicosta
- Taheitia lirata (Poey, 1858)[2]
- Taheitia mariannarum
- Taheitia parvula
- Taheitia wrighti (Pfeiffer, 1862)[2]
References edit
- ^ Adams, Henry; Adams, Arthur (1863). "Descriptions of Five new Genera of Mollusca". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3rd series) 11 (LXI): 19.
- ^ a b c d e "Mollusca" Archived 26 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, Retrieved 23 March 2011.