Avakubia

Avakubia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Streptaxidae
Genus:	Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919
Type species
Gulella (Avakubia) avakubiensis Pilsbry, 1919
Synonyms
Gulella (Avakubia) Pilsbry, 1919 superseded rank

Avakubia is a genus of land snails in the subfamily Enneinae.

Etymology

The name Avakubia refers to the village of Avakubi inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the genus was first discovered.

Distribution

Species inside the genus Avakubia can be found around the Gulf of Guinea. The vast majority of occurrences are in Cameroon.

Species

Avakubia contains nine species.

• Avakubia acuminata (Thiele, 1933)
• Avakubia avakubiensis (Pilsbry, 1919)
• Avakubia biokoensis de Winter & Vastenhout, 2013
• Avakubia crystallums de Winter, 2013
• Avakubia fruticicola de Winter & Vastenhout, 2013
• Avakubia occidentalis de Winter, 2013
• Avakubia ortizdezarateorum de Winter & Vastenhout, 2013
• Avakubia semenguei de Winter & Vastenhout, 2013
• Avakubia subacuminata de Winter & Vastenhout, 2013

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017

External links

• Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). "A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 40: 1–370.
• Winter, A. J. de & Vastenhout, N. (2013). "Revision of the Afrotropical land snail genus Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919, with description of Pseudavakubia gen. n. and eleven new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae)". African Invertebrates. 54 (2): 605–663. Bibcode:2013AfrIn..54..605W. doi:10.5733/afin.054.0215.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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