Carelia (gastropod)

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

Carelia
Shells of Carelia cochlea
Scientific classification
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(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
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Genus:
Carelia

Adams, 1855[1]

Species

Species within the genus Carelia include:

References

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