Carelia (gastropod)

Carelia
Shells of Carelia cochlea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Cochlicopoidea
Family: Amastridae
Genus: Carelia
Adams, 1855[1]

Carelia is a genus of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Amastridae and superfamily Cochlicopoidea. Snails in this genus are endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

Species

Species within the genus Carelia include:

References

  1. Adams (1855). Gen. Moll. 2: 132.


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