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Oʻahu tree snails, genus Achatinella, (also called Pūpū kuahiwi or kāhuli) are a large genus of colorful, tropical, tree-living, air-breathing, land snails, arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinellidae.
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Oʻahu tree snail | |
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Achatinella bulimoides | |
Achatinella lila | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
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Genus: | Achatinella Swainson, 1828 |
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41 species,[1]
9 extant species remained in 2014[2] |
This genus of tree snails live in Hawaii, and all are endangered species. They were once abundant. They were mentioned in Hawaiian folklore and songs, and their shells were used in lei and other ornaments.
Many of these arboreal snails are sinistral or left-handed in their spiral shell coiling, whereas most gastropod shells are dextral. (See the section on chirality in the article gastropod shell.)