Godwinia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Oxychilidae |
| Subfamily: | Godwiniinae |
| Genus: | Godwinia Sykes, 1900 |
Godwinia is the type genus of the subfamily Godwiniinae.
Distribution
editSpecies
editSpecies within the genus Godwinia include:
- Godwinia caperata (Gould, 1864)
- Godwinia haupuensis (C. M. Cooke, 1921)
- Godwinia newcombi (Reeve, 1854)
References
edit- ^ Sharp, David (1913). Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands. University Press. pp. 277–278.