Euglandina vanuxemensis

Euglandina vanuxemensis
Apertural view of a shell of Euglandina vanuxemensis from Binney, 1878 [1]
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. vanuxemensis
Binomial name
Euglandina vanuxemensis
(Lea, 1834)

Euglandina vanuxemensis, is a species of predatory air-breathing land snail, a carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Spiraxidae.

References

  1. Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 59.
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