Carelia (gastropod)

Carelia
Shells of Carelia cochlea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Amastridae
Genus: †
Adams, 1855[1]

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

Species

Species within the genus Carelia include:

References

  1. ^ Adams (1855). Gen. Moll. 2: 132.
  • ARKive info here: [1]


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