Anguispira
Genus of gastropods
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Anguispira, the tigersnails, is a genus of small pulmonate land snails in the family Discidae endemic to North America.[2] Snails in this genus are defined by their striped shells. Anguispira species are either habitat generalists like A. alternata or limestone specialists like A. cumberlandiana.[3]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | incertae sedis |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Discidae |
| Genus: | Anguispira Morse, 1864[1] |
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Species
Species:[4]
- Anguispira alabama (G.H.Clapp, 1920) — Alabama tigersnail
- Anguispira alternata (Say, 1817) — Flamed tigersnail
- Anguispira cumberlandiana (I.Lea, 1840) — Cumberland tigersnail
- Anguispira fergusoni (Bland, 1862) — Coastal plain tigersnail
- Anguispira holroydensis (Russell, 1956)
- Anguispira jessica (Kutchka, 1938) — Mountain tigersnail
- Anguispira knoxensis (Pilsbry, 1901) — Rustic tigersnail
- Anguispira kochi (L.Pfeiffer, 1846) — Banded tigersnail
- Anguispira macneilli (B.Walker, 1928) — Tombigbee tigersnail
- Anguispira mordax (Shuttleworth, 1852) — Appalachian tigersnail
- Anguispira nimapuna (H.B.Baker, 1932) — Nimapuna or Nimapu tigersnail
- Anguispira picta (G.H.Clapp, 1920) — Painted snake-coiled forest snail
- Anguispira rugoderma (Hubricht, 1938) — Pine Mountain tigersnail
- Anguispira russelli (Tozer, 1956)
- Anguispira stihleri (Dourson, 2015) — Greenbrier tigersnail
- Anguispira strongylodes (Pfeiffer, 1854) — Southeastern tigersnail
- Synonyms
- Anguispira clarki Vanatta, 1924: synonym of Anguispira fergusoni (Bland, 1862)
- † Anguispira simplex Russell, 1955: synonym of † Haplotrema simplex (Russell, 1955) (new combination)
- Anguispira strigosa (A. Gould, 1846): synonym of Oreohelix strigosa (A. Gould, 1846) (unaccepted combination)
