| Tauphaedusa | |
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| 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] | |
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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]
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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]