Tayloria (gastropod)

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GibbonsiaBourguignat, 1890 junior homonym (not Cooper, 1864) GigantaxisTomlin, 1930 Gonaxis (Macrogonaxis)Thiele, 1932 superseded combination SomalitayloriaVerdcourt, 1962 Tayloria (Colpanostoma)Bourguignat, 1890 Tayloria (Macrogonaxis)Thiele, 1932 alternative representation Tayloria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

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

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• † Tayloria miocenicaVerdcourt, 1963: synonym of Artemonopsis miocenica (Verdcourt, 1963) (superseded combination)

References

1. Bourguignat J. R. (1889). Moll. Afr. Equator.: 38.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tayloria Bourguignat, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996783 on 2025-06-16
3. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi : 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
4. Tattersfield, P. (1996). "Tayloria amaniensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996 e.T21553A9300852. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T21553A9300852.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
5. Tattersfield, P. (1996). "Tayloria angustistriata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996 e.T21554A9300882. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T21554A9300882.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
6. Tattersfield, P. (1996). "Tayloria hyalinoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996 e.T21555A9300912. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T21555A9300912.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.

• Bequaert J. & Clench W. J. (1936). "Studies of African land and fresh-water mollusks. Notes on Gonaxis Taylor, with description of a new species". Journal of Conchology London, 20: 263-273.
• Gerlach J. & Bruggen A. C. van (1999). "Streptaxidae Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of the Seychelles Islands, western Indian Ocean". Zoologische Verhandelingen 328: 1-60. abstract, PDF.