Eua globosa

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Fat Eua snail

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

References[edit]

  1. ^ Gerlach, J. & O'Foighil, D. (2022). "Eua globosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T198790A112361200. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T198790A112361200.en. 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