''Anguispira'', the tigersnails, is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of small
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 inclu ...
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 molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s in the family
Discidae
Discidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea.
Genera
The family Discidae has no subfamilies. Genera within the family Discidae include:
* '' Anguispira'' Morse, ...
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to North America.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Anguispira Morse, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995314 on 2022-07-12] Snails in this genus are defined by their striped shells. ''Anguispira'' species are either habitat
generalists like ''A. alternata'' or
limestone
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specialists like ''A. cumberlandiana''.
Species
Species:
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Anguispira alabama'' — Alabama tigersnail
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Anguispira alternata'' — Flamed tigersnail
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Anguispira cumberlandiana'' — Cumberland tigersnail
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Anguispira fergusoni'' — Coastal plain tigersnail
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Anguispira holroydensis'' ()
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Anguispira jessica'' () — Mountain tigersnail
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Anguispira knoxensis'' — Rustic tigersnail
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Anguispira kochi'' — Banded tigersnail
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Anguispira macneilli'' () — Tombigbee tigersnail
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Anguispira mordax'' — Appalachian tigersnail
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Anguispira nimapuna'' () — Nimapuna or Nimapu tigersnail
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Anguispira picta'' — Painted snake-coiled forest snail
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Anguispira rugoderma'' () — Pine Mountain tigersnail
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Anguispira russelli
''Anguispira russelli'' was a species of pulmonate land snail in the family Discidae, the disk snails. The species is only known from fossilized specimens. It is named after L.S. Russell, former Director of Zoology at the National Museum of Cana ...
'' ()
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Anguispira stihleri'' () — Greenbrier tigersnail
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Anguispira strongylodes'' — Southeastern tigersnail
;Synonyms
* ''Anguispira clarki''
Vanatta, 1924: synonym of ''Anguispira fergusoni''
(Bland, 1862)
* † ''Anguispira simplex''
Russell, 1955: synonym of † ''
Haplotrema simplex''
(Russell, 1955) (new combination)
* ''Anguispira strigosa''
(A. Gould, 1846): synonym of ''
Oreohelix strigosa''
(A. Gould, 1846) (unaccepted combination)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
Discidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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