Ennea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.
Ennea is the type genus of the subfamily Enneinae.
This genus has become a synonym of Ptychotrema L. Pfeiffer, 1853
Distribution
The distribution of the genus Ennea is AfrotropicalSutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. . and includes: Species Species within the genus Ennea include: Ennea arthuri Preston, 1913: synonym of Gulella odhneriana Dupuis, 1923 Ennea cylindracea E.A. Smith, 1897 (taxon inquirendum) Species brought into synonymy: Ennea aliena Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912: synonym of Indoennea aliena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) accepted as Sinoennea aliena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912) (original combination)
References
Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links Dohrn H. (1865). "List of the land and freshwater shells of the Zambezi and Lake Nyasa, eastern tropical Africa, collected by John Kirk". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 231-234. page 233. Preston H. B. (1914). "Characters of three new species of Ennea from southern Nigeria". Proceedings of the Malacological Society, London 11: 134-136.