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Opeas

Opeas is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Achatinidae
Genus: Opeas
Albers, 18501

Opeas is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.2

Opeas is the type genus of the subfamily Opeatinae.3

Species

The genus Opeas includes the following species:

  • Opeas bocourtianum bocourtianum Crosse  & Fischer, 18694
  • Opeas bocourtianum pittieri Martens, 18984
  • Opeas clavulinum
  • Opeas funiculare
  • Opeas gracile
  • Opeas guatemalense Strebel, 18824
  • Opeas hannense (Rang, 1831)
  • Opeas pumilum Pfeiffer, 18404
  • Opeas pyrgula Schumacker & Boettger, 1891
  • Opeas setchuanense
  • Opeas striatissimum
  • Opeas utriculus
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