Everettia

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

Everettia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Dyakioidea
Family:
Dyakiidae
Genus:
Everettia

The species within this genus are very difficult to identify from shells only, because the shells are all very similar.[2]

Species

The genus Everettia included 15 species in 2007[3][4] but there was described additional 11 species of Everettia in northern Borneo in 2009:[2]

  • Everettia corrugata Laidlaw, 1937
    • Everettia corrugata corrugata Laidlaw, 1937
    • Everettia corrugata williamsi Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia dominiki Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia interior Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia jasilini Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia jucunda (L. Pfeiffer, 1891) - the type species
  • Everettia jucundior Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia klemmantanica Gude, 1918
  • Everettia lapidini Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia layanglayang Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia monticola Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia occidentalis Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia paulbasintali Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia planispira Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia safriei Liew, Schilthuizen & Vermeulen, 2009[2]
  • Everettia subconsul (Smith, 1887)
  • Everettia themis (Smith, 1895)

References
  1. Godwin-Austen H. H. (1891) "On a collection of Land-shells made in Borneo by Mr. A. Everett, with Descriptions of supposed new species. Part II. Zonitidae and Helicidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1891: 22–47, p. 33.
  2. Liew T.-S., Schilthuizen M. & Vermeulen J. J. (November 2009, online: 26 October 2009) "Systematic revision of the genus Everettia Godwin-Austen, 1891 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Dyakiidae) in Sabah, northern Borneo". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157(3): 515-550. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00526.x.
  3. Tumpeesuwan C., Naggs F. & Panha S. (31 August 2007) "A new genus and new species of dyakiid snail (Pulmonata: Dyakiidae) from the Phu Phan range, northeastern Thailand". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2) Archived 22 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine: 363-369. PDF
  4. Everettia. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), accessed 27 November 2009.
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