Arinia is a genus of small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Diplommatinidae. The genus was originally described by Henry and Arthur Adams in 1856.[2]

Arinia
Shell of Arinia boucheti (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Arinia
H. and A. Adams, 1856 [1]
Type species
Cyclostoma minus
G. B. Sowerby I, 1843
Genera

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Synonyms
  • Arinia (Arinia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856· accepted, alternate representation
  • Arinia (Leucarinia) Möllendorff, 1893· accepted, alternate representation
  • Diplommatina (Arinia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856 (original rank)
  • Euarinia Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1898

Species

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Species within the genus Arina include:

References

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  1. ^ "Arinia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  2. ^ Henry Adams (1858). The genera of recent Mollusca; arranged to their organization: By Henry and Arthur Adams. (Bd. 3. enthält die Tafeln). Vol. 2. John van Voorst. p. 288. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
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