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Euglandina

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Description

Euglandina is a genus of predatory medium- to large-sized, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euglandina, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2294106	https://www.gbif.org/species/2294106
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	251918	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=251918

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Spiraxidae : Euglandina

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Spiraxidae : Euglandina

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
family	Spiraxidae	Baker 1939
genus	Euglandina	Crosse & P.Fischer 1870

Scientific Name

Euglandina Crosse & P.Fischer, 1870

Name Published In

Miss. Sci. Méxique et Amér. Centr., Rech. Zool., 7 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Euglandina	genus	belongs to Spiraxidae	stated without evidence	Kittle and Portell, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 0.78 Ma
Pleistocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Gastropoda)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. A. Kittle and R. W. Portell. 2010. Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene). Florida Fossil Invertebrates 12:1-32

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euglandina

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Euglandina albersi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina altispira species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina anomala species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina aurata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina bailyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina balesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina binneyana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina candida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina carminensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina cognata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina corneola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina cumingi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina cuneus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina cylindracea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina cylindrus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina dactylus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina daudebarti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina decussata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina encladus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina excavata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina fosteri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina ghiesbreghti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina gigantea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina haasi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina hererrae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina huingensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina hyperion species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina immemorata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina indusiata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina insignis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina jacksoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina lamyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina liebmanni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina livida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina longula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina lowei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina mazatlanica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina michoacanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina pan species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina pilsbryi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina pinicola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina pseudoturris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina radula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina rosea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina singleyana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina singleyauna species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina sowerbyana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina striata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina tenella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina tepicensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina texasiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina titan species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina turris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina vanuxemensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina victoriana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euglandina wani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Pfaffia Behn, 1845	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Spiraxidae : *Pfaffia*
Molglandina Berthier, 1911	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Stylommatophora : Spiraxidae : *Molglandina*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1870	Euglandina Crosse and Fischer
2010	Euglandina Kittle and Portell p. 30

References

Kittle B. A., Portell R. W. (2010) Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene), Florida Fossil Invertebrates 12, 1-32

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017. - via World Register of Marine Species

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Miss. Sci. Méxique et Amér. Centr., Rech. Zool., 7 (1) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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