Tornatellides is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks, or micromolluscs in the family Achatinellidae.

Tornatellides
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Achatinellidae
Genus: Tornatellides
Pilsbry, 1910
Species

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Distribution

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This genus is endemic to the islands of the South Pacific.

Predators

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Individuals of the Hawaiian species are preyed upon by caterpillars of the moth Hyposmocoma molluscivora.

Species

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Species within the genus Tornatellides include:

References

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  • Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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