Opeas hannense, common name the dwarf awlsnail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Genus: | Opeas |
| Species: | O. hannense
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| Binomial name | |
| Opeas hannense (Rang, 1831)
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Distribution
editNon-indigenous:[citation needed]
- Great Britain as a "hothouse alien".
- Canada [failed verification]
References
edit- ^ Rang, Sander (1831). "Description des coquilles terrestres recueillies pendant un voyage à la côte occidentale d'Afrique, et au Brésil". Annales des sciences naturelles: 41–42. Plate 3, Fig 8.
- ^ Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
Further reading
edit- Brook, Fred J. (2010). "Coastal landsnail fauna of Rarotonga, Cook Islands: systematics, diversity, biogeography, faunal history, and environmental influences". Tuhinga. 21: 190–191.
External links
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