''Euconulus'' is a
genus
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of very small air-breathing
land snail
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s,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
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pulmonate
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gastropod
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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''
H. B. Baker, 1941
* ''
Euconulus crami''
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
* ''
Euconulus dentatus''
(Sterki, 1893)
* ''
Euconulus deroni''
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
* ''
Euconulus fresti''
Horsáková, Nekola & Horsák, 2020
* ''
Euconulus fulvus
''Euconulus fulvus'' is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails.
Description
For terms see gastropod shell
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(O. F. Müller, 1774)
* ''
Euconulus gaetanoi''
(Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1908)
* ''
Euconulus konaensis''
(Sykes, 1896)
* ''
Euconulus lubricella''
(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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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
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