Carelia turricula

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Carelia turricula
Carelia turricula shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Amastridae
Genus: Carelia
Species:
C. turricula
Binomial name
Carelia turricula
(Mighels, 1845)
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Achatina turricula Mighels, 1845[4]
  • Spiraxis (?) turricula Pfeiffer, 1853[5]
  • Carelia turricula Pease, 1871[6]
  • Achatina obeliscus Reeve, 1849[7]
  • Achatina newcombi Pfeiffer, 1851[8]
  • Carelia cocklea Gulick, 1905[9]

Carelia turricula are an extinct species of small, air-breathing, land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amastridae.[1]

This species was endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.[1]

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