Tauphaedusa

Tauphaedusa
Tauphaedusa tau
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Tribe: Phaedusini
Genus: Tauphaedusa
H. Nordsieck, 2003
Type species
Clausilia tau
O. Boettger, 1877
Synonyms[1]
  • Euphaedusa (Tauphaedusa) H. Nordsieck, 2003 ·

Tauphaedusa is a genus of land snails belonging to the subfamily Phaedusinae of the family Clausiliidae.[1] The type species is Tauphaedusa tau (O. Boettger, 1877).[1]

The genus was first described in 2003 by the German malacologist, Hartmut Nordsieck,[1][2] who described it as a subgenus of Euphaedusa, stating that "this subgenus is identical with the tau group[3] from mainland China ...and includes all Euphaedusa species from Taiwan, South Korea and the Japanese Islands, except E. aculus".[2]

In a 2021 paper, Sulikowska-Drozd, Hwang, Páll-Gergely and Wu suggested elevating this subgenus to the rank of genus.[4]

Species

  • Tauphaedusa broderseni (O. Boettger & Schmacker, 1894)
  • Tauphaedusa claviformis (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
  • Tauphaedusa comes (Pilsbry, 1900)
  • Tauphaedusa digonoptyx (O. Boettger, 1877)
  • Tauphaedusa eumegetha (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1891)
  • Tauphaedusa fusaniana (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1908)
  • Tauphaedusa gemina (Gredler, 1881)
  • Tauphaedusa gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)
  • Tauphaedusa ponsonbyi (O. Boettger, 1883)
  • Tauphaedusa rowlandi (Pilsbry, 1902)
  • Tauphaedusa senkakuensis (Kuroda, 1960)
  • Tauphaedusa sheridani (L. Pfeiffer, 1866)
  • Tauphaedusa stearnsii (Pilsbry, 1895)
  • Tauphaedusa subaculus (Pilsbry, 1902)
  • Tauphaedusa tau (O. Boettger, 1877)

References

  1. ^ a b c d "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tauphaedusa H.Nordsieck, 2003". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2025-11-06.
  2. ^ a b Hartmut Nordsieck (15 December 2003). "Systematic and nomenclatural notes on Phaedusinae with the description of new taxa (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)". Archiv fuer Molluskenkunde: international journal of malacology. 132 (1–2): 121–141. doi:10.1127/ARCH.MOLL/132/2003/121. ISSN 0003-9284. Wikidata Q99653264.
  3. ^ Hartmut Nordsieck (18 June 2001). "Revision of the system of the Phaedusinae from mainland China with the description of new taxa (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)". Archiv fuer Molluskenkunde: international journal of malacology. 129 (1–2): 25-63 [31]. doi:10.1127/ARCH.MOLL/129/2001/25. ISSN 0003-9284. Wikidata Q99620114.
  4. ^ Anna Sulikowska-Drozd; Chung-Chi Hwang; Barna Páll-Gergely; Shu-Ping Wu (8 October 2021). "Giants of Taiwan – comparative analysis of life history traits in four land snail species Changphaedusa horikawai, Formosana swinhoei, F. formosensis, and Formosana sp. (Stylommatophora: Cla". Molluscan Research. 41 (4): 298–315. doi:10.1080/13235818.2021.1984189. ISSN 1323-5818. Wikidata Q113179562.