Anguispira Explained

Anguispira, the tigersnails, is a genus of small pulmonate land snails in the family Discidae endemic to North America.^[1] 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. ^[2]

Species

Species:^[3]

• Anguispira alabama — Alabama tigersnail
• Anguispira alternata — Flamed tigersnail
• Anguispira cumberlandiana — Cumberland tigersnail
• Anguispira fergusoni — Coastal plain tigersnail
• Anguispira holroydensis
• Anguispira jessica — Mountain tigersnail
• Anguispira knoxensis — Rustic tigersnail
• Anguispira kochi — Banded tigersnail
• Anguispira macneilli — Tombigbee tigersnail
• Anguispira mordax — Appalachian tigersnail
• Anguispira nimapuna — Nimapuna or Nimapu tigersnail
• Anguispira picta — Painted snake-coiled forest snail
• Anguispira rugoderma — Pine Mountain tigersnail
• Anguispira russelli
• Anguispira stihleri — Greenbrier tigersnail
• Anguispira strongylodes — 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)

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Anguispira Morse, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995314 on 2022-07-12
2. Haskell . David G. . Pan . Jia W. . Phylogenetic analysis of threatened and range-restricted limestone specialists in the land snail genus Anguispira . Conservation Genetics . en . 14 . 3 . 671–682 . 10.1007/s10592-013-0460-4 . 1566-0621.
3. Web site: Anguispira Morse, 1864 . www.gbif.org . 10 October 2021 . en.