Tornatellides Explained
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:
- Tornatellides attenuatus
- Tornatellides bellus
- Tornatellides boeningi (Schmacker and Boettger, 1891)
- Tornatellides brunneus
- Tornatellides bryani
- Tornatellides comes
- Tornatellides compactus
- Tornatellides confusus
- Tornatellides cyphostyla
- Tornatellides diptyx
- Tornatellides drepanophorus
- Tornatellides euryomphala
- Tornatellides forbesi
- Tornatellides frit
- Tornatellides idae
- Tornatellides inornatus
- Tornatellides insignis
- Tornatellides irregularis
- Tornatellides kahoolavensis
- Tornatellides kahukuensis
- Tornatellides kamaloensis
- Tornatellides kilauea
- Tornatellides konaensis
- Tornatellides leptospira
- Tornatellides lordhowensis
- Tornatellides macromphala
- Tornatellides macroptychia
- Tornatellides moomomiensis
- Tornatellides neckeri
- Tornatellides oahuensis
- Tornatellides oncospira
- Tornatellides oswaldi
- Tornatellides perkinsi
- Tornatellides pilsbryi
- Tornatellides plagioptyx
- Tornatellides popouelensis
- Tornatellides prionoptychia
- Tornatellides procerulus
- Tornatellides productus
- Tornatellides pyramidatus
- Tornatellides ronaldi
- Tornatellides rudicostatus
- Tornatellides serrarius
- Tornatellides spaldingi
- Tornatellides stokesi
- Tornatellides subangulatus
- Tornatellides subperforata
- Tornatellides terebra
- Tornatellides tryoni
- Tornatellides virgula
- Tornatellides vitreus
- Tornatellides waianaensis
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