Euonyma laeocochlis

Euonyma laeocochlis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Subulinidae
Subfamily:	Subulininae
Genus:	Euonyma
Species:	E. laeocochlis
Binomial name
	Euonyma laeocochlis; (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896)[1]
Synonyms
	Subulina laeocochlis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896

Euonyma laeocochlis is a species of an air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.

Euonyma laeocochlis is the type species of the genus Euonyma.^[2]

This species has not been collected since its original description in 1896.^[2] Herbert (2006)^[2] have rediscovered this species in South Africa in 2006.^[2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to South Africa.^[1] The type locality is "Humansdorp, St. Francis Bay", South Africa.^[1]

Description

Euonyma laeocochlis has been described by British malacologists James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929) and by John Henry Ponsonby-Fane (1848-1916) in 1896.^[1] Its type description read as follow:^[1]

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Shell sinistral, fusiform, the upper whorls somewhat attenuate; whorls thirteen in number, mostly very narrow, broadening distinctly towards the base. The specimens (two) before us being dead, we cannot tell the colour, but probably it is pale olivaceous. The whorls are nearly smooth, but are obscurely longitudinally obliquely striate, the basal whorl slightly angled in front; aperture oblong, the columellar margin being straightly produced and slightly reflexed.

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References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference ^[1]

1 2 3 4 5 6 Melvill J. C. & Ponsonby J. H. (1896). "Descriptions of new Terrestrial Mollusca from South Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)18: 314-318. page 316. Plate XVI, figure 3.
1 2 3 4 Herbert D. (2006). "Rediscovery of the type species of Euonyma (Subulinidae) and observations on South African species of Gulella (Streptaxidae), with description of two new species (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata)". Journal of Natural History 40(17-18): 1063-1081. doi:10.1080/00222930600845218.

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[Melvill_1896-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Melvill J. C. & Ponsonby J. H. (1896). "Descriptions of new Terrestrial Mollusca from South Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)18: 314-318. page 316. Plate XVI, figure 3.

[Herbert_2006-2] 1 2 3 4 Herbert D. (2006). "Rediscovery of the type species of Euonyma (Subulinidae) and observations on South African species of Gulella (Streptaxidae), with description of two new species (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata)". Journal of Natural History 40(17-18): 1063-1081. doi:10.1080/00222930600845218.