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Amastra turritella

(Amastrid Land Snail)

Overview

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Amastridae: <i>Amastra turritella</i> (Férussac, 1824) from Hawaii

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Amastrid Land Snail

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia () - C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
    - Branch: Protostomia () - Grobben, 1908
      - Infrakingdom: Lophotrochozoa ()
        Superphylum: Eutrochozoa ()
        Phylum: Mollusca () - (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795 - Molluscs
        Class: Gastropoda () - Cuvier, 1795 - Snails and Slugs
        Subclass: Orthogastropoda () - Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
        Superorder: Heterobranchia () - J.E. Gray, 1840
        Order: Pulmonata () - Cuvier, in Blainville, 1814
        Suborder: Eupulmonata () - (Haszprunar & Huber, 1990)
        Infraorder: Stylommatophora () - A. Schmidt, 1855
        Superfamily: Cochlicopoidea () - Pilsbry, 1900 (1879)
        Family: Amastridae () - Pilsbry, 1910
        Genus: Amastra () - Adams, 1855
        Specific name: turritella - (Férussac, 1824)
        Scientific name: - Amastra turritella (Férussac, 1824)

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Amastra

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 130 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. aemulator (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. affinis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. agglutinans (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. albocincta (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. albolabris (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. amicta (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. anthonii (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. assimilis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. aurostoma (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. badia (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. baldwiniana (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. biplicata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. borcherdingi (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. breviata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. conica (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. conifera (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. cornea (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. crassilabrum (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. cyclostoma (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. cylindrica (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. davisiana (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. decorticata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. delicata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. durandi (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. dwightii (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. elegantula (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. elephantina (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. elliptica (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. elongata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. eos (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. farcimen (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. flavescens (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. forbesi (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. fragilis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. fraterna (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. globosa (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. goniops (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. gouveii (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. grayana (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. gulickana (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. hawaiiensis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. humilis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. hutchinsonii (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. implicata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. inflata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. inopinata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. irwiniana (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. johnsoni (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. juddii (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. kalamaulensis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. kauaiensis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. kaunakakaiensis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. knudseni (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. laeva (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. lahainana (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. lineolata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. luctuosa (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. magna (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. makawaoensis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. malleata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. mastersi (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. melanosis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. metamorpha (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. micans (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. mirabilis (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. modesta (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. modicella (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. moesta (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. montagui (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. montana (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. montivaga (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. mucronata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. nana (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. nannodes (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. neglecta (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. nigra (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. nubifera (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. nubigena (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. nubilosa (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. nucleola (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. nucula (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. obesa (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. oswaldi (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. ovatula (Amastrid Land Snail (Fossil)) · A. peasei (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. pellucida (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. petricola (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. pilsbryi (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. porcus (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. porphyrostoma (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. praeopima (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. problematica (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. pullata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. pusilla (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. reticulata (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. ricei (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. rubens (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. rubida (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. rubristoma (Amastrid Land Snail) · A. rugulosa (Amastrid Land Snail)

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Further Reading

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Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 221.
Check list of Hawaiian land and fresh water Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1928. url p. 50.
Evolution, racial and habitudinal. Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905. url , p. 221, p. 39.
Fauna hawaiiensis; Cambridge, Eng., The University press, 1913. url p. 346.
Manual of conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species. by George W. Tryon, Jr. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1885-1935. url p. 139, p. 139, p. 157, p. 157, p. 208, p. 209, p. 209, p. 211, p. 214, p. 243, p. 243, p. 248, p. 248, p. 315, p. 315, p. 331, p. 331, p. 332, p. 332, p. 377, p. 377, p. 378, p. 380, p. 380, p. 383, p. 383, p. 64.
Mollusca, by E.R. Sykes with intercalations on anatomy by Lt.-Col. Godwin-Austen. [CambridgeUniversity Press]1900. url p. 346.
Natural history of Hawaii, being an account of the Hawaiian people, the geology and geography of the islands, and the native and introduced plants and animals of the group, by William Alanson Bryan. Illustrated with one hundred and seventeen full page plates from four hundred and forty-one photographs elucidating the ethnology of the native people, the geology and topogr Honolulu, Hawaii[Printed for the author by] the Hawaiian gazette co., l9l5. url p. 449, p. 449.
New names introduced by H. A. Pilsbry in the Mollusca and Crustacea, by William J. Clench and Ruth D. Turner. [Philadelphia]Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1962. url p. 159, p. 6, p. 7.
Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 180.
The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. London: Academic Press [etc.], 1865-1968. url p. 356.
The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 3, p. 79.

Notes

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Contributors

Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 17, 2007:

Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database

Identifiers

Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16190152
Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: IMGASN9C10
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 174994

Last Revised: 7/16/2012