Avakubia

Avakubia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Streptaxidae
Genus:	Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919
Type species
Gulella (Avakubia) avakubiensisPilsbry, 1919
Synonyms
Gulella (Avakubia)Pilsbry, 1919 superseded rank

Avakubia is a genus of land snails in the subfamily Enneinae. ^[1]

Etymology

The name Avakubia refers to the village of Avakubi inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the genus was first discovered. ^[2]

Distribution

Species inside the genus Avakubia can be found around the Gulf of Guinea. The vast majority of occurrences are in Cameroon. ^[3]

Species

Avakubia contains nine species. ^[4]

• Avakubia acuminata (Thiele, 1933)
• Avakubia avakubiensis (Pilsbry, 1919)
• Avakubia biokoensis de Winter & Vastenhout, 2013
• Avakubia crystallums de Winter, 2013
• Avakubia fruticicola de Winter & Vastenhout, 2013
• Avakubia occidentalis de Winter, 2013
• Avakubia ortizdezarateorum de Winter & Vastenhout, 2013
• Avakubia semenguei de Winter & Vastenhout, 2013
• Avakubia subacuminata de Winter & Vastenhout, 2013

References

1. Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919 . 16 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. "Avakubia Pilsbry 1919 - Plazi TreatmentBank". publication.plazi.org. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
3. "Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-06-15.
4. "MolluscaBase - Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919". www.molluscabase.org. Retrieved 2025-06-15.

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

External links

• Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). "A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 40: 1–370.
• Winter, A. J. de & Vastenhout, N. (2013). "Revision of the Afrotropical land snail genus Avakubia Pilsbry, 1919, with description of Pseudavakubia gen. n. and eleven new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae)". African Invertebrates. 54 (2): 605–663. Bibcode:2013AfrIn..54..605W. doi:10.5733/afin.054.0215.