Hirasea

Hirasea
Hirasea sinuosa shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Charopidae
Subfamily: Thysanotinae
Genus: Hirasea
Pilsbry, 1902[1]

Hirasea is a genus of small, pulmonate land snails in the family Charopidae.[2] This genus sees its highest diversity in the Hawaiian Islands, but species are distributed throughout Japan and Polynesia.

  1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1902). "Notices of new Japanese land shells". The Nautilus 15: 116-119. 118.
  2. ^ Bank, R. (2017). Hirasea Pilsbry, 1902. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996012 on 2017-11-16