{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = GracefulAwlsnail.jpg | image_caption = ''Allopeas gracile'' | taxon = Allopeas | authority = H. B. Baker, 1935<ref>Baker H. B. (1935). "Jamaican land snails, 3." ''Nautilus'' '''48'''(3): 84.</ref> |type_species= ''Bulimus gracilis'' <small>T. Hutton, 1834</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=bank /> | synonyms = * ''Lamellaxis'' <small>Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882</small><ref>Strebel, H., & Pfeffer G.J. (1882). ''Beitr. Mexik. Land- u. Süssw. Conch.'' '''5''': 109.</ref> * ''Lamellaxis (Allopeas)'' <small>H. B. Baker, 1935</small>(original combination) }}
'''''Allopeas''''', common name the "awl snails", is a genus of small, tropical, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.<ref name=bank>{{WRMS source|278821|Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.|10 January 2019}}</ref>
== Species == The genus ''Allopeas'' includes the following species: * ''Allopeas acmella'' <small>(Morelet, 1885)</small> * † ''Allopeas agnolini'' <small>Miquel, 2024</small> * ''Allopeas brevispira'' <small>(Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)</small> * ''Allopeas cavernicola'' <small>(Annandale & Chopra, 1924)</small> * ''Allopeas clavulinum'' <small>(Potiez & Michaud, 1838)</small> - spike awlsnail<ref>[https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=567214 "''Allopeas clavulinum'' (Potiez and Michaud, 1838)"]. ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.</ref> * ''Allopeas franzhuberi'' <small>Thach, 2021</small> * ''Allopeas gracile'' <small>(Hutton, 1834)</small> - graceful awlsnail<ref>[https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=567215 "''Allopeas gracile'' (Hutton, 1834)"]. ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.</ref> - type species<ref>Naggs F. (1992). "''Tortaxis'' Pilsbry, 1906 and ''Allopeas'' Baker, 1935 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation by the designation of a neotype for ''Achatina erecta'' Benson, 1842". ''Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature'' '''49''': [https://archive.org/stream/bulletinofzoolog49inte#page/258/mode/2up 258]-260.</ref> * ''Allopeas hedeius'' <small>(Mabille, 1887)</small> * ''Allopeas heudei'' <small>(Pilsbry, 1906)</small> * ''Allopeas latebricola'' <small>(Reeve, 1849)</small> * ''Allopeas mariae'' <small>(Jousseaume, 1894)</small> * ''Allopeas micra'' <small>(d'Orbigny, 1835)</small><ref name="Robinson 2009">Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". ''Zoologische Mededelingen'' '''83''' http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007185659/http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 |date=2011-10-07 }}</ref> * ''Allopeas myrmekophilos'' <small>R. Janssen, 2002</small><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Witte V. |author2=Janssen R. |author3=Eppenstein A. |author4=Maschwitz U. |year=2002 |title=''Allopeas myrmekophilos'' (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), the first myrmecophilous mollusc living in colonies of the ponerine army ant ''Leptogenys distinguenda'' (Formicidae, Ponerinae) |journal=Insectes Sociaux |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=301–305 |doi=10.1007/PL00012646 }}</ref> * ''Allopeas prestoni'' <small>(Sykes, 1898)</small> * ''Allopeas pusillum'' <small>(H. Adams, 1867)</small> * ''Allopeas recisa'' <small>(Morelet, 1885)</small> * ''Allopeas satsumense'' <small>(Pilsbry, 1906)</small> * ''Allopeas subula'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1839)</small> * ''Allopeas sykesi'' <small>(Pilsbry, 1906)</small>
;Synonyms: * ''Allopeas gracilis'' [sic]: synonym of ''Allopeas gracile'' <small>(T. Hutton, 1834)</small> (incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet) * ''Allopeas javanicum'' <small>(Reeve, 1849)</small>: synonym of ''Paropeas achatinaceum'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1846)</small> (junior synonym) * ''Allopeas layardi'' <small>(W. H. Benson, 1863)</small>: synonym of ''Eutomopeas layardi'' <small>(W. H. Benson, 1863)</small> (unaccepted combination) * ''Allopeas mauritianum'' <small>(Pfeiffer, 1852)</small> - Mauritian awlsnail:<ref>[https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=567216 "''Allopeas mauritianum'' (Pfeiffer, 1852)"]. ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.</ref> synonym of ''Allopeas clavulinum'' <small>(Potiez & Michaud, 1838)</small> (junior subjective synonym) * ''Allopeas oparanum'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1846)</small>: synonym of ''Allopeas gracile'' <small>(T. Hutton, 1834)</small> * ''Allopeas pyrgiscus'' <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1861)</small>: synonym of ''Allopeas gracile'' <small>(T. Hutton, 1834)</small> (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym) * ''Allopeas pyrgula'' <small>(Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1891)</small>: synonym of ''Opeas pyrgula'' <small>Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1891</small> (superseded combination)
== References == {{Reflist}} * {{cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=H.B. |title=Jamaican land snails, 3. |journal=The Nautilus |date=1935 |volume=48 |issue=3 |page=84}} * {{cite book |last1=Bank |first1=R.A. |title=Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017 |date=2017}} * {{cite book |last1=Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. |title=Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. vi |date=1995 |publisher=Backhuys Publishers. |location=Leiden}}
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Category:Subulininae Category:Taxa named by Horace Burrington Baker
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