Chilonopsis

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Chilonopsis
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Chilonopsis nonpareil
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder:
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Subfamily:
Genus: Chilonopsis
Fischer de Waldheim, 1848[1]

Chilonopsis is an extinct genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae. All species were found on Saint Helena[2]

Species[]

Species within the genus Chilonopsis include:

References[]

  1. ^ Fischer de Waldheim (1848). Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 21(1): 233, 236.
  2. ^ Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.


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