Anguispira cumberlandiana

Cumberland Tigersnail
Not evaluated (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Discidae
Genus: Anguispira
Species: A. cumberlandiana
Binomial name
Anguispira cumberlandiana
(I. Lea, 1840)[2]

The Cumberland Tigersnail or the Cumberland Disc, scientific name Anguispira cumberlandiana, is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Discidae.

This species is found along the Cumberland Plateau, United States.

Original descriptions from the 1840s

Anguispira cumberlandiana was originally discovered and described under the name Carocolla Cumberlandiana by Isaac Lea in 1840.[2]

Lea's original text (the type description) reads as follows and provided one sentence of physical description. He lists the location of specimens as in the Cumberland Mountains near Jasper, Tennessee:

Later, in 1843,[3] Lea provided the same description, but with more background information about the body form of this species in relation to H. alternata (now known as Anguispira alternata), particularly the lenticular form and carina of cumberlandiana.

References

This article incorporates public domain text from references.[2][3]

  1. IUCN (2009). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 5 January 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 Lea, I. (August - October 1840). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1(13): 284-289.
  3. 1 2 Lea, I. (1843). Transactions of the American Philosophical Society New Series 8: 163-250.
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