Carelia (gastropod)

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Carelia
Shells of Carelia cochlea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Amastridae
Genus: Carelia
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[edit]

Species within the genus Carelia include:

References[edit]

  1. ^ Adams (1855). Gen. Moll. 2: 132.