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]

Taheitia
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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 porrecta snail

Species

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Species within the genus Taheitia include:

References

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  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. ^ a b c d e "Mollusca" Archived 26 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, Retrieved 23 March 2011.