Biology:Eua globosa

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Fat Eua snail

Critically endangered, possibly extinct (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Partulidae
Genus: Eua
Species:
E. globosa
Binomial name
Eua globosa
Pilsbry & Cooke, 1934

Eua globosa is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Partulidae. It is endemic to the island of 'Eua, Tonga.

Eua globosa is the type species of the genus Eua.

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relations of Eua globosa:[2]

Partulidae
 
 

Partula

 
 

Samoana

 
 
 
Eua
 
 
 

Eua zebrina

 
 

Eua montana

 
 
 

Eua expansa

 
 
 

Eua globosa

 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ Gerlach, J.; O'Foighil, D. (2022). "Eua globosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T198790A112361200.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/198790/112361200. Retrieved 9 April 2024. 
  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

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