Family Subulinidae | Subfamily Subulininae Rank Species | |
Euonyma laeocochlis is a species of an air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Subulinidae.
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Euonyma laeocochlis is the type species of the genus Euonyma.
This species has not been collected since its original description in 1896. Herbert (2006) have rediscovered this species in South Africa in 2006.
Distribution
This species is endemic to South Africa. The type locality is "Humansdorp, St. Francis Bay", South Africa.
Description
Euonyma laeocochlis has been described by British malacologists James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929) and by John Henry Ponsonby-Fane (1848-1916) in 1896. Its type description read as follow:
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