Tornatellides

Tornatellides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Achatinellidae
Genus:	Tornatellides Pilsbry, 1910
Species
See text.

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

Distribution[]

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

Predators[]

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

Species[]

Species within the genus Tornatellides include:

• (Schmacker and Boettger, 1891)
• Tornatellides lordhowensis
• Tornatellides subperforata

References[]

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