Eostrobilops hirasei
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| Eostrobilops hirasei | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Strobilopsidae |
| Genus: | Eostrobilops |
| Species: | E. hirasei |
| Binomial name | |
| Eostrobilops hirasei | |
| Range of Eostrobilops hirasei: Jeju Island, lying south off the coast of South Korea. | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Eostrobilops hirasei is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Strobilopsidae.
The specific name is apparently in honor either of the Japanese malacologist Yoichiro Hirase (1859–1925) or of his son Shintaro Hirase (1884–1939).[clarification needed]
Eostrobilops hirasei was discovered and described under the name Strobilops hirasei by the American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1908.[1] The type specimens are stored in the Academy of Natural Sciences (number 95251) and in Hirase's collection (number 1538).[1][a]
The species was moved into the newly created genus Eostrobilops by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1927; Eostrobilops hirasei is the type species of the genus Eostrobilops.[3]
Distribution
The type locality is Jeju Island, in South Korea.[1]