Tornatellides

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Tornatellides subperforatus 284420321.jpg

| image_caption = Tornatellides subperforatus

| taxon = Tornatellides

| authority = Pilsbry, 1910

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text.

}}

Tornatellides is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks, or micromolluscs in the family Achatinellidae.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to the islands of the South Pacific.

Predators

Individuals of the Hawaiian species are preyed upon by caterpillars of the moth Hyposmocoma molluscivora.

Species

References

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  • Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}
  • [http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20041214085224/http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/speciesindex/genus_tornatellides_106359_1.htm]

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