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Napaeus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Enoidea

Subfamily
  
Eninae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Enidae

Tribe
  
Enini

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Enidae, Hemicycla, Canariella, Monilearia, Buliminus

Napaeus moquinianus


Napaeus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Enidae.

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Distribution

Napaeus is endemic to the Macaronesia ecoregion: Azores and Canary Islands.

Species

There are two recognized subgenera, Napaeus Albers, 1850 and Napaeinus Hesse, 1933.

Species within the genus Napaeus include 18 species on the Tenerife, 17 species on the La Gomera and others. Additionally, 11 new species from the Canary Islands were described in 2011.

  • Napaeus alucensis Santana & Yanes, 2011- on La Gomera
  • Napaeus aringaensis Yanes et al., 2011
  • Napaeus baeticatus (Webb & Berthelot, 1833) - type species
  • Napaeus barquini Alonso & Ibáñez, 2006
  • Napaeus delicatus Alonso, Yanes & Ibáñez, 2011
  • Napaeus gomerensis G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2011 - on La Gomera
  • Napaeus grohi Yanes et al., 2011
  • Napaeus isletae Groh & Ibanez, 1992
  • Napaeus josei Yanes et al., 2011
  • Napaeus lajaensis Castillo et al., 2006
  • Napaeus minimus Holyoak & Holyoak, 2011
  • Napaeus moroi Martín, Alonso & Ibáñez, 2011 - La Gomera
  • Napaeus nanodes Shuttleworth, 1852
  • Napaeus pygmaeus Ibanez & Alonso, 1993
  • Napaeus torilensis Artiles & Deniz, 2011 - on La Gomera
  • Napaeus validoi Yanes et al., 2011
  • Napaeus venegueraensis Yanes et al., 2011

    • References

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