Avakubia
| Avakubia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Streptaxidae |
| Genus: | Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919 |
| Type species | |
| Gulella (Avakubia) avakubiensis Pilsbry, 1919 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gulella (Avakubia) Pilsbry, 1919 superseded rank | |
Avakubia is a genus of land snails in the subfamily Enneinae. [1]
Etymology
[edit]The name Avakubia refers to the village of Avakubi inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the genus was first discovered.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Species inside the genus Avakubia can be found around the Gulf of Guinea. The vast majority of occurences are in Cameroon.[3]
Species
[edit]Avakubia contains nine species.[4]
- 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
[edit]- ^ Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919. 16 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ "Avakubia Pilsbry 1919 - Plazi TreatmentBank". publication.plazi.org. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- ^ "MolluscaBase - Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919". www.molluscabase.org. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
[edit]- 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).
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