Eua expansa

Eua expansa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Partuloidea
Family: Partulidae
Genus: Eua
Species: E. expansa
Binomial name
Eua expansa
(Pease, 1872)

Eua expansa is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae.

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relations of Eua expansa:[1]

Partulidae


Partula



Samoana




Eua



Eua zebrina



Eua montana




Eua expansa




Eua globosa





References

  1. 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


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