Euglandina aurata

Euglandina aurata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Testacelloidea
Family: Spiraxidae
Subfamily: Euglandininae
Genus: Euglandina
Subgenus: Euglandina
Species: E. aurata
Binomial name
Euglandina aurata
(Morelet, 1849)

Euglandina aurata is a species of large predatory air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Spiraxidae.[1]

Euglandina aurata is the type species of the genus Euglandina.[1]

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