Orpiella

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Phylum:Mollusca
Infraorder:Limacoidei
Orpiella
Shell of Orpiella keppelli (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Trochomorphoidea
Family: Trochomorphidae
Genus: Orpiella
L. Pfeiffer & J. E. Gray, 1855
Type species
Helix (Nanina) scorpio Gould, 1846
Synonyms
  • Aulacopus Pfeffer, 1878
  • Eurypus C. Semper, 1870 (Invalid: junior homonym of Eurypus Kirby, 1819 [Coleoptera], Fretum Sykes, 1900 is a replacement name)
  • Fretum Sykes, 1900
  • Kalendyma Gude, 1911 (junior synonym)
  • Orpiella (Fijia) Gude, 1913· accepted, alternate representation
  • Orpiella (Halozonites) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Orpiella (Kalendyma) Gude, 1911 (junior synonym)
  • Orpiella (Orpiella) L. Pfeiffer & J. E. Gray, 1855· accepted, alternate representation
  • Orpiella (Owaraha) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Owaraha H. B. Baker, 1941

Orpiella is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae.[1]

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