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Tekoulina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Achatinellidae
Subfamily: Tekoulininae
Solem, 1972
Genus: Tekoulina
Solem, 1972[1]

Tekoulina is a genus of gastropod in the family Achatinellidae, and the only member of the subfamily Tekoulininae. It was formerly allocated to the family Veronicellidae - the leatherleaf slugs.

It contains only one species Tekoulina pricei and is known to be viviparous.[1] It is endemic to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.[2]

  1. ^ a b Solem A. (1972). "Tekoulina, a new viviparous tornatellinid land snail from Rarotonga, Cook Islands". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 40 (2): 93–114., abstract.
  2. ^ "Tekoulina". Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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