Eua
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Eua is a genus
of air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Partulidae
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A cladogram
showing phylogenic relations of Eua:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Partulidae
Partulidae
Partulidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora, endemic to Pacific islands.- Genera :Partulidae is divided into three genera:* Eua has four species, confined to Tonga and Samoa....
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Species
Species within the genus Eua include:- Eua expansaEua expansaEua expansa is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae.The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relations of Eua expansa:...
- Eua globosaEua globosaEua globosa is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae.The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relations of Eua globosa:...
- Eua montanaEua montanaEua montana is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae.The following is a cladogram showing the phylogenic relations of Eua montana:...
- Eua zebrinaEua zebrinaEua zebrina is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Partulidae. This species is endemic to American Samoa.A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of Eua zebrina:...
A cladogram
Cladogram
A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows ancestral relations between organisms, to represent the evolutionary tree of life. Although traditionally such cladograms were generated largely on the basis of morphological characters, DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational...
showing phylogenic relations of Eua: