Eua (gastropod)

Eua is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Partulidae.

Eua
E. zebrina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Partuloidea
Family:
Partulidae
Genus:
Eua

Type species
Eua globosa
Pilsbry & Cooke 1934

Species

Species within the genus Eua include:

A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of Eua species:[2] [3]
 
 
 

Eua zebrina

 
 

Eua montana

 
 
 

Eua expansa

 
 
 

Eua globosa

 

References
  1. Pilsbry H. A. & Cooke C. M. (1934) Occ. Pap. Bishop Mus. 10(14): 4.
  2. Lee T., Burch J. B., Coote T., Pearce-Kelly P., Hickman C., Meyer J.-Y. & Foighil D. O. (18 August 2009). "Moorean tree snail survival revisited: a multi-island genealogical perspective". BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 204. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-204
  3. Gerlach, J. (2016) Icons of Evolution - Pacific island tree snails, family Partulidae. Phelsuma Press, Cambridge

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