# Opeas

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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| authority = [Albers](/source/Johann_Christian_Albers), 1850<ref>Albers (1850). ''Die Heliceen'', page 175.</ref>
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'''''Opeas''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of small, tropical, air-breathing [land snail](/source/land_snail)s, [terrestrial](/source/terrestrial_animal) [pulmonate](/source/pulmonate) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s in the family [Achatinidae](/source/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>

''Opeas'' is the [type genus](/source/type_genus) of the subfamily Opeatinae.<ref>{{Bouchet 2005}}</ref>

== Species ==
The genus ''Opeas'' includes the following species:
*''[Opeas bocourtianum](/source/Opeas_bocourtianum) bocourtianum'' Crosse  & Fischer, 1869<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Barrientos|first=Zaidett|date=2003|title=Lista de especies de moluscos terrestres (Archaeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda, Archaeopulmonata, Stylommatophora, Soleolifera) informadas para Costa Rica|url=https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/26388/26575|journal=[Revista de Biología Tropical](/source/Revista_de_Biolog%C3%ADa_Tropical)|volume=51|pages=293–304}}</ref>
*''[Opeas bocourtianum](/source/Opeas_bocourtianum) pittieri'' Martens, 1898<ref name=":0" />
*''[Opeas clavulinum](/source/Opeas_clavulinum)''
* ''[Opeas funiculare](/source/Opeas_funiculare)''
* ''[Opeas gracile](/source/Opeas_gracile)''
*''[Opeas guatemalense](/source/Opeas_guatemalense)'' Strebel, 1882<ref name=":0" />
* ''[Opeas hannense](/source/Opeas_hannense)'' <small>(Rang, 1831)</small>
*''[Opeas pumilum](/source/Opeas_pumilum)''  Pfeiffer, 1840<ref name=":0" />
* ''[Opeas pyrgula](/source/Opeas_pyrgula)'' Schumacker & Boettger, 1891
* ''[Opeas setchuanense](/source/Opeas_setchuanense)''
* ''[Opeas striatissimum](/source/Opeas_striatissimum)''
* ''[Opeas utriculus](/source/Opeas_utriculus)''

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{GBIF |id=2294134 |title=Opeas }}

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Category:Achatinidae
Category:Taxa named by Johann Christoph Albers

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