Napaeus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Eninae of the family Enidae.

[3] Napaeus is endemic to the Macaronesia ecoregion: Azores and Canary Islands.

[4][5] There are three recognized subgenera, Macaronapaeus Kobelt, 1899, Napaeus Albers, 1850 and Napaeinus Hesse, 1933.

[2] Species within the genus Napaeus include 18 species on the Tenerife,[4] 17 species[4] on the La Gomera and others.

Additionally, 11 new species from the Canary Islands were described in 2011.