Godwinia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae.

Godwinia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Oxychilidae
Subfamily: Godwiniinae
Genus: Godwinia
Sykes, 1900

Godwinia is the type genus of the subfamily Godwiniinae.

Distribution

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This genus is endemic to Hawaii.[1]

Species

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Species within the genus Godwinia include:

References

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  1. ^ Sharp, David (1913). Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands. University Press. pp. 277–278.