''Euconulus'' is a
genus
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of very small air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Euconulidae
Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea.
This land snail family is closely allied to the Zonitidae, the glass snails.
...
, the hive snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Euconulus Reinhardt, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818246 on 2020-11-07]
Species
Species within the genus ''Euconulus'' include:
* ''
Euconulus alderi''
(Gray, 1840)
* † ''
Euconulus alveolus''
(F. Sandberger, 1887)
* ''
Euconulus chersinus''
(Say, 1821)
* ''
Euconulus conoides
''Euconulus'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Euconulus Reinhardt, 1883. Accessed through: World Re ...
''
H. B. Baker, 1941
* ''
Euconulus crami''
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
* ''
Euconulus dentatus
''Euconulus'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Euconulus Reinhardt, 1883. Accessed through: World Re ...
''
(Sterki, 1893)
* ''
Euconulus deroni
''Euconulus'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Euconulus Reinhardt, 1883. Accessed through: World Re ...
''
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
* ''
Euconulus fresti
''Euconulus'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Euconulus Reinhardt, 1883. Accessed through: World Re ...
''
Horsáková, Nekola & Horsák, 2020
* ''
Euconulus fulvus
''Euconulus fulvus'' is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails.
Description
For terms see gastropod shell
The 2.0-2.5 x 2.8-3.5 mm shell is br ...
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(O. F. Müller, 1774)
* ''
Euconulus gaetanoi
''Euconulus'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Euconulus Reinhardt, 1883. Accessed through: World Re ...
''
(Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1908)
* ''
Euconulus konaensis
''Euconulus'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Euconulus Reinhardt, 1883. Accessed through: World Re ...
''
(Sykes, 1896)
* ''
Euconulus lubricella
''Euconulus'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Euconulus Reinhardt, 1883. Accessed through: World Re ...
''
(Ancey, 1904)
* ''
Euconulus martinezi''
(Hidalgo, 1869)
* ''
Euconulus microsoma''
(Morelet, 1883)
*''
Euconulus pittieri'' (Martens, 1892)
* ''
Euconulus polygyratus''
(Pilsbry, 1899)
* † ''
Euconulus styriacus''
Harzhauser, Neubauer & H. Binder, 2014
* ''
Euconulus subtilissimus''
(A. Gould, 1847)
* ''
Euconulus thaanumi''
(Ancey, 1904)
* ''
Euconulus thurstoni''
H. B. Baker, 1941
* ''
Euconulus trochiformis''
(Montagu, 1803)
* ''
Euconulus trochulus''
( O. W. H. Reinhardt, 1883)
* ''
Euconulus turbinatus''
Gulick, 1904
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Euconulus alveus''
F. Sandberger, 1887 † : synonym of ''Euconulus alveolus''
(F. Sandberger, 1887) † (incorrect subsequent spelling)
* ''Euconulus callopisticus''
(Bourguignat, 1880) : synonym of ''Euconulus fulvus fulvus''
(O. F. Müller, 1774) (junior synonym)
* ''Euconulus kaliellaeformis''
(Klebs, 1886) † : synonym of ''
Kaliella kaliellaeformis''
(Klebs, 1886) †
* ''Euconulus mcleodensis''
Russell, 1929 † : synonym of ''
Grangerella mcleodensis''
(Russell, 1929) † (new combination)
* ''Euconulus micra''
(Morelet, 1882) : synonym of ''Euconulus crami''
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994 (junior homonym)
* ''Euconulus praticola''
( O. W. H. Reinhardt, 1883) : synonym of ''Euconulus alderi''
(Gray, 1840) (junior synonym)
* ''Euconulus reinhardti''
Pilsbry, 1900 : synonym of ''
Parasitala reinhardti''
(Pilsbry, 1900) (original combination)
* ''Euconulus trochiformis''
(Montagu, 1803) : synonym of ''Euconulus fulvus fulvus''
(O. F. Müller, 1774) (junior synonym)
References
* Reinhardt, O. (1883). Einige von Herrn D. W. Kobelt in Schwanheim a. M. zur Begutachtung übersandte, von Herrn Hungerford gesammelte japanische Hyalinen. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1883: 82-86. Berlin.
* Bourguignat, J.-R. (1891). Des formes européennes trocho-hyalinoïdes classées jusqu'à présent sous le nom générique de Conulus. Bulletins de la Société Malacologique de France, 7: 325-338, pl. 8. Paris
External links
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AnimalBase info discussing the taxonomy of ''Euconulus'
Iredale, T. (1933). Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum. 19(1): 37-59 Baker, H. B. (1941). Zonitid snails from Pacific islands. Part 3 and 4. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 166: 203–370.Fitzinger, L.J. (1833). Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben. Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreichs's unter der Enns, 3: 88-122. Wien
Euconulidae
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