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Rhodea
Rhodea maxima shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Subfamily: Stenogyrinae
Genus: Rhodea
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855[1]
Diversity[2][3]
9 species

Rhodea is a genus of land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.[4][3][5]

Authors of the genus provided no information about the etymology of this genus and its etymology remains unknown.[6]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Rhodea include Colombia[3] and Ecuador.[5][6]

Species

Species within the genus Rhodea include:

See also

A plant genus Rohdea is sometimes misspelled as Rhodea.

References

  1. ^ Adams H. & Adams A. (1855). Gen. Rec. Moll. 2: 135.
  2. ^ a b "Photo of the day (74): Rhodea". Bram's Snail Site, published 26 October 2009, accessed 1 April 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Grego J., Šteffek J. & Infante A. P. (2007). "Review of the genus Rhodea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Subulinidae), with description of two new species from Colombia". Basteria 71(1-3): 13-28. abstract.
  4. ^ Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "New paper on Rhodea" Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine. Ashbreure's posterous, published 1 April 2011, accessed 1 April 2011.
  6. ^ a b c d Pilsbry H. A. (1958). "A Colombian species of the Genus Rhodea". The Nautilus 71(3): 83-84, plate 9.

Further reading

  • Correoso M. A. (2010). "Nuevo reporte y localidades de Rhodea cousini Jousseaume, 1900 (Gastropoda: Subulinidae) para el Ecuador". Revista Geospacial (Quito) 7: 45–51.