Tayloria (gastropod)

Tayloria is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae. ^{[2] [3]}

Tayloria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Streptaxidae
Genus:	Tayloria Bourguignat, 1889[1]
Synonyms
Colpanostoma Bourguignat, 1890 (junior synonym) Gibbonsia Bourguignat, 1890 junior homonym (not Cooper, 1864) Gigantaxis Tomlin, 1930 Gonaxis (Macrogonaxis) Thiele, 1932 superseded combination Somalitayloria Verdcourt, 1962 Tayloria (Colpanostoma) Bourguignat, 1890 Tayloria (Macrogonaxis) Thiele, 1932 alternative representation Tayloria (Somalitayloria) Verdcourt, 1962 alternative representation Tayloria (Tayloria) Bourguignat, 1890 alternative representation

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Tayloria includes East Africa:^[3]

• East Africa^[3]
• Somalia
• the Seychelles^[3]
• Tanzania

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• † Tayloria miocenica Verdcourt, 1963: synonym of Artemonopsis miocenica (Verdcourt, 1963) (superseded combination)