Partulina

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Partulina
Partulina variabilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Achatinellidae
Genus: Partulina
Pfeiffer, 1854[1]

Partulina is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinellidae.

Species[edit]

Species within the genus Partulina include:

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pfeiffer L. (1854). "Skizze einer Monographie der Gattung Achatinella Swains". Malakozoologische Blätter 1: 112-145. 114.

Further reading[edit]

  • Thacker R. W. & Hadfield M. G. (August 2000) "Mitochondrial Phylogeny of Extant Hawaiian Tree Snails (Achatinellinae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 16(2): 263-270. doi:10.1006/mpev.2000.0793