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Genus of gastropods

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
Godwin-Austen, 1891

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

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

Species

The genus Everettia included 15 species in 2007 but there was described additional 11 species of Everettia in northern Borneo in 2009:

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (December 2009)

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.
Taxon identifiers
Everettia
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