Eua is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Partulidae.

Eua
E. zebrina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Partulidae
Genus: Eua
Pilsbry & Cooke, 1934[1]
Type species
Eua globosa
Pilsbry & Cooke 1934

Species edit

Species within the genus Eua include:

A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of Eua species:[2] [3]

Eua globosa

References edit

  1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. & Cooke C. M. (1934) Occ. Pap. Bishop Mus. 10(14): 4.
  2. ^ Lee T., Burch J. B., Coote T., Pearce-Kelly P., Hickman C., Meyer J.-Y. & Foighil D. O. (18 August 2009). "Moorean tree snail survival revisited: a multi-island genealogical perspective". BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 204. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-204
  3. ^ Gerlach, J. (2016) Icons of Evolution - Pacific island tree snails, family Partulidae. Phelsuma Press, Cambridge

External links edit

Partulidae evolution, diversity and conservation Partula Pages