Achatinellidae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of tropical air-breathing land snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinelloidea.

Taxonomy

This is the only family in the superfamily Achatinelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

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Subfamilies in the family Achatinellidae include:

• Achatinellinae Gulick, 1873 - synonym: Helicterinae Pease, 1870 (inv.)
• Auriculellinae Odhner, 1921
• Elasmatininae Iredale, 1937
  • tribe Elasmatinini Iredale, 1937 - synonyms: Strobilidae Zilch, 1959 (n.a.); Pitysinae Cooke & Kondo, 1961
  • tribe Antonellini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
  • tribe Tubuaiini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
• Pacificellinae Steenberg, 1925
  • tribe Pacificellini Steenberg, 1925 - synonym: Tornatellinoptini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
  • tribe Lamellideini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
• Tekoulininae Solem, 1972
• Tornatellidinae Cooke & Kondo, 1961
  • tribe Tornatellidini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
  • tribe Tornatellariini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
• Tornatellininae Sykes, 1900
  • tribe Tornatellinini Sykes, 1900
  • tribe Elasmiatini Kuroda & Habe, 1949

Distribution

This family of snails occurs widely in the Pacific islands. They are at their most diverse in the Hawaii

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

an group.

Genera

Genera in the family Achatinellidae include:

Achatinellinae

• Achatinella Swainson, 1828 - type genus of the subfamily Achatinellinae

Auriculellinae

• Auriculella
  Auriculella
  Auriculella is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinellidae.Auriculella is the type genus of the subfamily Auriculellinae.-Species:...
  
  Pfeiffer, 1854 - type genus of the subfamily Auriculellinae

Elasmatininae

• tribe Elasmatinini
• tribe Antonellini
• tribe Tubuaiini

Pacificellinae

• tribe Pacificellini
  • Tornatellinops
    Tornatellinops
    Tornatellinops is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusk, or micromollusks in the family Achatinellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Tornatellinops include:* Tornatellinops inconspicua...
    
    Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915
• tribe Lamellideini

Tekoulininae

Tornatellidinae

• tribe Tornatellidini
  • Tornatellides
    Tornatellides
    Tornatellides is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks, or micromolluscs in the family Achatinellidae.-Predators:These very small snails are preyed upon by caterpillars of the moth Hyposmocoma molluscivora....
    
    Pilsbry, 1910 - type genus of the tribe Tornatellidini
• tribe Tornatellariini
  • Tornatellaria Pilsbry, 1910 - type genus of the tribe Tornatellariini

Tornatellininae

• tribe Tornatellinini
  • Tornatellina L. Pfeiffer, 1842 - type genus the tribe Tornatellinini
• tribe Elasmiatini
  • Elasmias
    Elasmias
    Elasmias is a genus of tropical tree-living air-breathing land snails, arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinellidae.Elasmias is the type genus of the tribe Elasmiatini.-Species:Species within the genus Elasmias include:...
    
    Pilsbry, 1910 - type genus of the tribe Elasmiatini

unsorted

• Partulina
  Partulina
  Partulina is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Partulina include:* Partulina confusa* Partulina crassa...
  
  Pfeiffer, 1854