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

Everettia
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Everettia

The species within this genus are very difficult to identify from shells only, because the shells are all very similar.[2]

Species edit

The genus Everettia included 15 species in 2007[3][4] but there was described additional 11 species of Everettia in northern Borneo in 2009:[2]

References edit

  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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n 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.