Euonyma laeocochlis

Euonyma laeocochlis is a species of an air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.[2]

Euonyma laeocochlis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Achatinoidea
Family:
Achatinidae
Subfamily:
Subulininae
Genus:
Euonyma
Species:
E. laeocochlis
Binomial name
Euonyma laeocochlis
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896)[1]
Synonyms

Subulina laeocochlis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896

E. laeocochlis is the type species of the genus Euonyma.[3]

This species has not been collected since its original description in 1896.[3] Herbert (2006)[3] rediscovered this species in South Africa in 2006.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to South Africa.[1] The type locality is "Humansdorp, St. Francis Bay", South Africa.[1]

Description

E. laeocochlis has been described by British malacologists James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929) and by John Henry Ponsonby-Fane (1848-1916) in 1896.[1] Its type description read as follow:[1]

Shell sinistral, fusiform, the upper whorls somewhat attenuate; whorls thirteen in number, mostly very narrow,

broadening distinctly towards the base. The specimens (two) before us being dead, we cannot tell the colour, but probably it is pale olivaceous. The whorls are nearly smooth, but are obscurely longitudinally obliquely striate, the basal whorl slightly angled in front; aperture oblong, the columellar margin being straightly produced and slightly

reflexed.

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [1]

  1. Melvill J. C. & Ponsonby J. H. (1896). "Descriptions of new Terrestrial Mollusca from South Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)18: 314-318. page 316. Plate XVI, figure 3.
  2. Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  3. Herbert D. (2006). "Rediscovery of the type species of Euonyma (Subulinidae) and observations on South African species of Gulella (Streptaxidae), with description of two new species (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata)". Journal of Natural History 40(17-18): 1063-1081. doi:10.1080/00222930600845218.
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