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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
Superordo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
Subordo: Helicina
Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Punctoidea

Familia: Charopidae
Subfamilia: Charopinae
Genus: Charopa
Species: C. macgillivrayana

Charopa is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Charopidae.

Charopa is the type genus of the family Charopidae.[3]
Species

Species within the genus Charopa include:

Charopa bianca (Hutton, 1883)[2]
Charopa coma (Gray, 1843) - type species of the genus Charopa[2]
Charopa lafargei Vermeulen & Marzuki, 2014[4]
Charopa longstaffae (Suter, 1913)[2]
Charopa macgillivrayana Iredale, 1913[2]
Charopa montivaga Suter, 1894[2]
Charopa pilsbryi (Suter, 1894)[2][5]
Charopa pseudocoma Suter, 1894[2]

References
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von Martens E. (1860) Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig., ed. 2: page 87.
Marshall, B. (2016). Charopa Martens, 1860. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818722 on 2016-06-19
Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
Vermeulen J. J. & Marzuki M. E. (2014). "‘Charopa’ lafargei (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Charopidae), a new, presumed narrowly endemic species from Peninsular Malaysia". Basteria 78(1-3): 31-34.
Made the type species of a separate genus Dendropa by Marshall & Worthy (2017). See: Bruce A. Marshall; Trevor H. Worthy (2017). "Miocene land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from palaeolake Manuherikia, southern New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 47 (4): 294–318. doi:10.1080/03036758.2017.1287101. S2CID 134943274.

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