Taheitia

Taheitia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Truncatellidae
Subfamily:	Truncatellinae
Genus:	Taheitia Adams, 1863[1]

Taheitia porrecta snail

Taheitia is a genus of very small land snails that have an operculum and live near saltwater, maritime terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Truncatellidae.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Taheitia include:

• Taheitia alata
• Taheitia elongata (Poey in Pfeiffer, 1856)[2]
• Taheitia filicosta (Gundlach in Poey, 1858)[2]
• Taheitia lamellicosta
• Taheitia lirata (Poey, 1858)[2]
• Taheitia mariannarum
• Taheitia parvula
• Taheitia wrighti (Pfeiffer, 1862)[2]

References

1. Adams, Henry; Adams, Arthur (1863). "Descriptions of Five new Genera of Mollusca". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (3rd series) 11 (LXI): 19.
2. "Mollusca" Archived 26 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, Retrieved 23 March 2011.