Rhodea

Rhodea
Rhodea maxima shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Achatinidae
Subfamily: Stenogyrinae
Genus: Rhodea
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
Diversity
9 species

Rhodea is a genus of land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

Authors of the genus provided no information about the etymology of this genus and its etymology remains unknown.

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Rhodea include Colombia and Ecuador.

Species

Species within the genus Rhodea include:

See also

A plant genus Rohdea is sometimes misspelled as Rhodea.

References

  1. ↑ Adams H. & Adams A. (1855). Gen. Rec. Moll. 2: 135.
  2. 1 2 "Photo of the day (74): Rhodea". Bram's Snail Site, published 26 October 2009, accessed 1 April 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Grego J., Šteffek J. & Infante A. P. (2007). "Review of the genus Rhodea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Subulinidae), with description of two new species from Colombia". Basteria 71(1-3): 13-28. abstract.
  4. ↑ Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 "New paper on Rhodea" Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine. Ashbreure's posterous, published 1 April 2011, accessed 1 April 2011.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Pilsbry H. A. (1958). "A Colombian species of the Genus Rhodea". The Nautilus 71(3): 83-84, plate 9.

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