Oahu tree snails
Sign in to saveAchatinella is a tropical genus of colorful land snails in the monotypic Achatinellidae subfamily Achatinellinae.
Species
Hawaiian tree snails
Genus
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyAchatinellidae
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Conservation status
- Shell description
- Ecology
- Habitat
- Feeding
- Life cycle
- Predation and other threats
- Hawaiian folklore
- Species
- Subgenus ''Achatinella''
- Subgenus ''Bulimella''
- Subgenus ''Achatinellastrum''
- Gallery
- Extant species
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Achatinella is a tropical genus of colorful land snails in the monotypic Achatinellidae subfamily Achatinellinae.
Species are arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusks with some species called Oʻahu tree snails or kāhuli in the Hawaiian language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oahu tree snails” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.