Everettia is a

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of 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 ...

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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 Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s in the family

Dyakiidae Dyakiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Some of the species in this family are sin ...

. The species within this genus are very difficult to identify from shells only, because the shells are all very similar.

Species

The genus ''Everettia'' included 15 species in 2007Tumpeesuwan C., Naggs F. & Panha S. (31 August 2007) "A new genus and new species of dyakiid snail (Pulmonata: Dyakiidae) from the Phu Phan range, northeastern Thailand". ''

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(NCBI), accessed 27 November 2009. but there was described additional 11 species of ''Everettia'' in northern

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in 2009: * '' Everettia corrugata'' Laidlaw, 1937 ** ''Everettia corrugata corrugata'' Laidlaw, 1937 ** '' Everettia corrugata williamsi'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009Liew T.-S., Schilthuizen M. & Vermeulen J. J. (November 2009, online: 26 October 2009) "Systematic revision of the genus ''Everettia'' Godwin-Austen, 1891 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Dyakiidae) in

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, northern Borneo". ''

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'' 157(3): 515-550. . * '' Everettia dominiki'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia interior'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia jasilini'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia jucunda'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1891) - the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

* '' Everettia jucundior'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia klemmantanica'' Gude, 1918 * '' Everettia lapidini'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia layanglayang'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia monticola'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia occidentalis'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia paulbasintali'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia planispira'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia safriei'' Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009 * '' Everettia subconsul'' (Smith, 1887) * '' Everettia themis'' (Smith, 1895)

References

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