Ennea (gastropod)

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Ennea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Streptaxidae
Subfamily: Enneinae
Genus: Ennea
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855[1]
Type species
Pupa elegantula L. Pfeiffer, 1846
Synonyms
  • Carychiopsis E. von Martens, 1895
  • Ennea (Carychiopsis) E. von Martens, 1895
  • Ennea (Enneastrum) L. Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Enneastrum L. Pfeiffer, 1856
  • Pupa (Ennea) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (original rank)

Ennea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

Ennea is the type genus of the subfamily Enneinae.[3]

This genus has become a synonym of Ptychotrema L. Pfeiffer, 1853

The distribution of the genus Ennea is Afrotropical[2] and includes:

Species

References

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