Tayloria (gastropod)
Genus of gastropods
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Tayloria is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2][3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Streptaxidae |
| Genus: | Tayloria Bourguignat, 1889[1] |
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Distribution
The distribution of the genus Tayloria includes East Africa:[3]
Species
Species within the genus Tayloria include:
- Tayloria amaniensis Verdcourt - from Tanzania[4]
- Tayloria angustistriata K. Pfeiffer - from Tanzania[5]
- Tayloria babaulti Germain, 1923
- Tayloria craveni (E. A. Smith, 1880)
- Tayloria desiderata (Preston, 1913)
- Tayloria enneoides (E. von Martens, 1878)
- Tayloria gigas (E. A. Smith, 1880)
- Tayloria grandis Thiele, 1933
- Tayloria gwandaensis (Preston, 1912)
- Tayloria helicoides (C. R. Boettger, 1913)
- Tayloria hyalinoides Thiele - from Tanzania[6]
- Tayloria iterata E. von Martens, 1897
- Tayloria jouberti Bourguignat, 1890
- Tayloria jucunda Thiele, 1933
- Tayloria kibweziensis (E. A. Smith, 1894)
- Tayloria leroyi (Bourguignat, 1890)
- Tayloria moncieuxi F. Haas, 1934
- Tayloria quadrilateralis (Preston, 1910)
- Tayloria shimbiensis Connolly, 1922
- Tayloria somaliensis (Connolly, 1931)
- Tayloria striata Verdcourt, 1958
- Tayloria urguessensis (Preston, 1913)
- Tayloria usambarica (Craven, 1880)
- Synonyms
- Tayloria marsabitensis (Preston, 1913): synonym of Tayloria urguessensis marsabitensis (Preston, 1913) (status change)
- † Tayloria miocenica Verdcourt, 1963: synonym of Artemonopsis miocenica (Verdcourt, 1963) (superseded combination)
