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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
InfraOrdo: Pupilloidei
Superfamilia: Pupilloidea

Familia: Achatinellidae
Genus: Tornatellides
Species: T. subperforatus
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Tornatellides is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks, or micromolluscs in the family Achatinellidae.
Distribution

This genus is endemic to the islands of the South Pacific.
Predators

Individuals of the Hawaiian species are preyed upon by caterpillars of the moth Hyposmocoma molluscivora.
Species

Species within the genus Tornatellides include:

Tornatellides attenuatus
Tornatellides bellus
Tornatellides boeningi (Schmacker and Boettger, 1891)
Tornatellides brunneus
Tornatellides bryani
Tornatellides comes
Tornatellides compactus
Tornatellides confusus
Tornatellides cyphostyla
Tornatellides diptyx
Tornatellides drepanophorus
Tornatellides euryomphala
Tornatellides forbesi
Tornatellides frit
Tornatellides idae
Tornatellides inornatus
Tornatellides insignis
Tornatellides irregularis
Tornatellides kahoolavensis
Tornatellides kahukuensis
Tornatellides kamaloensis
Tornatellides kilauea
Tornatellides konaensis
Tornatellides leptospira
Tornatellides lordhowensis
Tornatellides macromphala
Tornatellides macroptychia
Tornatellides moomomiensis
Tornatellides neckeri
Tornatellides oahuensis
Tornatellides oncospira
Tornatellides oswaldi
Tornatellides perkinsi
Tornatellides pilsbryi
Tornatellides plagioptyx
Tornatellides popouelensis
Tornatellides prionoptychia
Tornatellides procerulus
Tornatellides productus
Tornatellides pyramidatus
Tornatellides ronaldi
Tornatellides rudicostatus
Tornatellides serrarius
Tornatellides spaldingi
Tornatellides stokesi
Tornatellides subangulatus
Tornatellides subperforatus
Tornatellides terebra
Tornatellides tryoni
Tornatellides virgula
Tornatellides vitreus
Tornatellides waianaensis

References

Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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