''Tayloria'' 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 molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

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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 inclu ...

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s in the family

Streptaxidae Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora. Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic. Six Streptaxi ...

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Distribution

The distribution of the genus ''Tayloria'' includes

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Species

Species within the genus ''Tayloria'' include: * '' Tayloria amaniensis'' Verdcourt - from Tanzania * '' Tayloria angustistriata'' K. Pfeiffer - from Tanzania * '' Tayloria babaulti'' Germain, 1923 * ''

Tayloria craveni ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' (E. A. Smith, 1880) * ''Tayloria desiderata'' (Preston, 1913) * ''

Tayloria enneoides ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' (E. von Martens, 1878) * '' Tayloria gigas'' (E. A. Smith, 1880) * '' Tayloria grandis'' Thiele, 1933 * '' Tayloria gwandaensis'' (Preston, 1912) * ''

Tayloria helicoides ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' (C. R. Boettger, 1913) * ''

Tayloria hyalinoides ''Tayloria hyalinoides'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae. This species is endemic to Tanzania Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country ...

'' Thiele - from Tanzania * ''

Tayloria iterata ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' E. von Martens, 1897 * ''

Tayloria jouberti ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' Bourguignat, 1890 * ''

Tayloria jucunda ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' Thiele, 1933 * ''

Tayloria kibweziensis ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' (E. A. Smith, 1894) * ''

Tayloria leroyi ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' (Bourguignat, 1890) * ''

Tayloria moncieuxi ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' F. Haas, 1934 * ''

Tayloria quadrilateralis ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' (Preston, 1910) * ''

Tayloria shimbiensis ''Tayloria'' is the scientific name for genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Tayloria'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails * ''Tayloria'' (plant), a genus of mosses {{Genus disambiguation ...

'' Connolly, 1922 * '' Tayloria somaliensis'' (Connolly, 1931) * '' Tayloria striata'' Verdcourt, 1958 * '' Tayloria urguessensis'' (Preston, 1913) * '' Tayloria usambarica'' (Craven, 1880) ;Synonyms: * ''Tayloria marsabitensis'' (Preston, 1913): synonym of ''Tayloria urguessensis marsabitensis'' (Preston, 1913) (status change) * † ''Tayloria miocenica'' Verdcourt, 1963: synonym of '' Artemonopsis miocenica'' (Verdcourt, 1963) (superseded combination)

References

* Bequaert J. & Clench W. J. (1936). "Studies of African land and fresh-water mollusks. Notes on ''Gonaxis'' Taylor, with description of a new species". ''Journal of Conchology'' London, 20: 263-273. * Gerlach J. & Bruggen A. C. van (1999). "Streptaxidae Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of the Seychelles Islands, western Indian Ocean". ''

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