Euglandina

Euglandina
A live individual of Euglandina rosea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Spiraxidae
Subfamily: Euglandininae
Genus: Euglandina
Crosse & Fischer, 1870[1]
Diversity[2]
At least 44 species
Synonyms
  • Euglandina (Cosmomenus) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Euglandina (Euglandina) Crosse & P. Fischer, 1870· accepted, alternate representation
  • Euglandina (Singleya) H. B. Baker, 1941· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pfaffia Behn, 1845

Euglandina is a genus of predatory medium- to large-sized, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.[3]

These snails were previously placed in the family Oleacinidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Euglandina is the type genus of the subfamily Euglandininae. The pulmonate genus Euglandina is often referred to as Glandina in older literature, and the most widely known species, Euglandina rosea, may commonly be found under the synonym Glandina truncata.[4]

These snails are especially notable for being carnivorous and predatory. They are sometimes called "wolf snails" for that reason.

  1. ^ Crosse & Fischer P. (1870). Miss. Sci. Méxique et Amér. Centr., Rech. zool. 7(1): 97.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Thompson 2008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Thompson, F. G. (2010). "Four species of land snails from Costa Rica and Panama (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae)". Revista de Biología Tropical. 58 (1): 195–202. doi:10.15517/rbt.v58i1.5204. PMID 20411717., PDF Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1946). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Vol. 2, Pt. 1. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia Monograph 3.