Allopeas Explained

Allopeas, common name the "awl snails", is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

Species

The genus Allopeas includes the following species:

• Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez & Michaud, 1838) - spike awlsnail^[1]
• Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834) - graceful awlsnail^[2] - type species^[3]
• Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852) - Mauritian awlsnail^[4]
• Allopeas micra (d'Orbigny, 1835)^[5]
• Allopeas myrmekophilos R. Janssen, 2002^[6]

Notes and References

1. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=567214 "Allopeas clavulinum (Potiez and Michaud, 1838)"
2. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=567215 "Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)"
3. Naggs F. (1992). "Tortaxis Pilsbry, 1906 and Allopeas Baker, 1935 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation by the designation of a neotype for Achatina erecta Benson, 1842". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49: 258-260.
4. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=567216 "Allopeas mauritianum (Pfeiffer, 1852)"
5. Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13
6. Witte V. . Janssen R. . Eppenstein A. . Maschwitz U. . 2002 . Allopeas myrmekophilos (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), the first myrmecophilous mollusc living in colonies of the ponerine army ant Leptogenys distinguenda (Formicidae, Ponerinae) . . 49 . 4 . 301–305 . 10.1007/PL00012646 .