''Euonyma laeocochlis'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of an air-breathing land snail,

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...

pulmonate gastropod

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in the family

Achatinidae Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "''agate''") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa. Well known species include ''Achatina achatina'' the Giant African Snail, and ''Liss ...

. ''E. laeocochlis'' is the

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of the genus ''

Euonyma ''Euonyma'' is a genus of small tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae. Species The genus ''Euonyma'' includes: * ''Euonyma curtissima'' Verdcourt * ''Euonyma ...

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

Distribution

This species is

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South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

. The type locality is "

Humansdorp Humansdorp is a small town and surrounding district in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, with a population of around 29,000 during the census of 2011. It is part of the Kouga Local Municipality of the Sarah Baartman District. The town is th ...

St. Francis Bay St Francis Bay ( af, St Francisbaai) is a holiday town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, roughly one hour’s drive from Port Elizabeth. On 11 November 2012 a fire destroyed 76 homes, almost ...

", South Africa.

Description

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

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference {{Taxonbar, from=Q5409861 Endemic fauna of South Africa laeocochlis Gastropods described in 1896