Euglandina pilsbryi

Euglandina pilsbryi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Testacelloidea
Family: Spiraxidae
Subfamily: Euglandininae
Genus: Euglandina
Subgenus: Euglandina
Species: E. pilsbryi
Binomial name
Euglandina pilsbryi
Bartsch, 1909

Euglandina pilsbryi is a species of predatory air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Spiraxidae.[1]

The specific name pilsbryi is in honor of American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry.

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