Albinaria
Encyclopedia
Albinaria is a genus
of air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae
, the door snails.
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 Clausiliidae
Clausiliidae
Clausiliidae, common name door snails, are a taxonomic family of small, very elongate, mostly left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks....
, the door snails.
Distribution
Distribution of the genus Albinaria include:- southern Albania
- Greece
- Cyprus
- western and southern Turkey
- Lebanon
Species
Species in this genus include 111 species:- Albinaria adrianae Gittenberger, 1979
- Albinaria adriani (Gittenberger, 1987)
- Albinaria alajana (Boettger, 1896)
- Albinaria amalthea (Westerlund, 1878)
- Albinaria anatolica (Roth, 1839)
- Albinaria arcadica (Boettger, 1878)
- Albinaria argynnis (Westerlund, 1898)
- Albinaria ariadne Schilthuizen & Gittenberger, 1991
- Albinaria arthuriana (Boettger, 1878)
- Albinaria avia (Charpentier, 1852)
- Albinaria basalifera Neubert, 1992
- Albinaria bigibbosula (Westerlund, 1878)
- Albinaria brevicollis (Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Albinaria broemmei (Boettger, 1892)
- Albinaria butoti (Nordsieck, 1984)
- Albinaria caeruleaAlbinaria caeruleaAlbinaria caerulea is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.- External links :* http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=2...
(Deshayes, 1835) - Albinaria campylauchen (Boettger, 1883)
- Albinaria candida (Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Albinaria cerigottana (Boettger, 1894)
- Albinaria christae Wiese, 1989
- Albinaria compressa (Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Albinaria confusa (Boettger, 1878)
- Albinaria contaminata (Rossmässler, 1835)
- Albinaria corrugataAlbinaria corrugataAlbinaria corrugata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.- Description :- External links :...
(Bruguière, 1792) - Albinaria cretensis (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Albinaria cristatella (Küster, 1861)
- Albinaria cytherae (Boettger, 1894)
- Albinaria discolor (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Albinaria eburnea (Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Albinaria edmundi (Gittenberger, 1987)
- Albinaria evelynae Gittenberger, 1998
- Albinaria forbesiana (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Albinaria freytagi (Boettger, 1889)
- Albinaria fuchskaeufeli Nordsieck, 1977
- Albinaria gerolimena Nordsieck, 1974
- Albinaria grayana (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Albinaria greeni Tomlin, 1935
- Albinaria grisea (Deshayes, 1835)
- Albinaria haessleini Fauer, 1978
- Albinaria hians (Boettger, 1878)
- Albinaria hippolyti (Boettger, 1878)
- Albinaria hohorsti Nordsieck, 1984
- Albinaria idaea (Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Albinaria idyllica (Gittenberger, 1987)
- Albinaria ietswaarti Gittenberger & Menkhorst, 1992
- Albinaria inauris (Boettger, 1896)
- Albinaria ithomensis Nordsieck, 1984
- Albinaria jaeckeli Wiese, 1989
- Albinaria janicollis Schultes & Wiese, 1991
- Albinaria janisadana Loosjes, 1955
- Albinaria jonica (Pfeiffer, 1866)
- Albinaria kemerensis Nordsieck, 1993
- Albinaria klemmi Paget, 1971
- Albinaria krueperi (Pfeiffer, 1866)
- Albinaria latelamellarisAlbinaria latelamellarisAlbinaria latelamellaris is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.- External links :...
Neubert, Örstan & Welter-Schultes, 2000 - Albinaria lerosiensisAlbinaria lerosiensisAlbinaria lerosiensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.- External links :...
(Pfeiffer, 1841) - Albinaria li Welter-Schultes, 1999
- Albinaria linnei Gittenberger, 2008
- Albinaria litoraria Neubert, 1998
- Albinaria lycica Nordsieck, 1993
- Albinaria maculosa (Deshayes, 1835)
- Albinaria maltzani (Böttger, 1883)
- Albinaria manselli (Boettger, 1883)
- Albinaria mavromoustakisi Brandt, 1961
- Albinaria menelaus (Martens, 1873)
- Albinaria mixta Nordsieck, 1984
- Albinaria monocristata Neubert, 1992
- Albinaria moreletiana (Boettger, 1878)
- Albinaria munda (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Albinaria myrensis Nordsieck, 1993
- Albinaria nadimi Tohme & Tohme, 1988
- Albinaria nivea (Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Albinaria olivieri (Roth, 1839)
- Albinaria papillifera Nordsieck, 1993
- Albinaria pellucida Nordsieck, 1993
- Albinaria pelocarinata Gittenberger, 1994
- Albinaria percristata Nordsieck, 1993
- Albinaria petrosa (Pfeiffer, 1849)
- Albinaria praeclaraAlbinaria praeclaraAlbinaria praeclara is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.- External links :...
(Pfeiffer, 1853) - Albinaria profuga (Charpentier, 1852)
- Albinaria proteus (Boettger, 1889)
- Albinaria puella (Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Albinaria rebeli Wagner, 1924
- Albinaria rechingeri Paget, 1971
- Albinaria retusa (Olivier, 1801)
- Albinaria rollei (Boettger, 1896)
- Albinaria saxatilis (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Albinaria schuetti Nordsieck, 1984
- Albinaria scopulosa (Charpentier, 1852)
- Albinaria senilis (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Albinaria solicola Neubert, 1998
- Albinaria sphakiota (Maltzan, 1887)
- Albinaria spratti (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Albinaria staudingeri (Boettger, 1890)
- Albinaria sturanyi Wagner, 1924
- Albinaria subaii (Nordsieck, 1984)
- Albinaria sublamellosa (Boettger, 1883)
- Albinaria supercarinata Gittenberger & Menkhorst, 1992
- Albinaria tenuicostata (Pfeiffer, 1864)
- Albinaria terebra (Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Albinaria teres (Olivier, 1801)
- Albinaria thiesseae (Boettger, 1880)
- Albinaria torticollis (Olivier, 1801)
- Albinaria turrita (Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Albinaria violacea Schilthuizen & Gittenberger, 1990
- Albinaria virgo (Mousson, 1854)
- Albinaria voithii (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Albinaria wettsteini Fuchs & Käufel, 1936
- Albinaria wiesei Gittenberger, 1988
- Albinaria xanthostoma (Böttger, 1883)
- Albinaria zilchi Fauer, 1993
Further reading
- De Weerd D. R. U. & Gittenberger E. (2005). "Towards a monophyletic genus Albinaria (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): the first molecular study into the phylogenetic position of eastern Albinaria species". Zoological Journal of the Linnean SocietyZoological Journal of the Linnean SocietyZoological Journal of the Linnean Society is the scientific journal of the Linnean Society published by Wiley-Blackwell.According to EBSCOhost, it "[p]resents original papers on zoology with an emphasis on the diversity, systematics, interrelationships, and habits of animals both living and...
143(4): 531-542. . - Kemperman Th. C. M. (1992). "Genitalia of Albinaria of the Ionian islands Kephallinia and Ithaka". In: Kemperman Th. C. M. Systematics and evolutionary history of the Albinaria species from the Ionian islands of Kephallinia and Ithaka (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Clausiliidae): 41-80. Leiden, thesis Leiden University.
- Schilthuizen M. & Gittenberger E. (1996). "Allozyme variation in some Cretan Albinaria (Gastropoda): paraphyletic species as natural phenomena". In: Taylor J. D. (ed.) Origin and evolutionary radiation of the Mollusca: 301-311. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Yamazaki N., Ueshima R., Terrett J. A., Yokobori S., Kaifu M., Segawa R., Kobayashi T., Numachi K., Ueda T., Nishikawa K., Watanabe K. & Thomas R. H. (1997). "Evolution of pulmonate gastropod mitochondrial genomes: comparisons of complete gene organizations of Euhadra, Cepaea and Albinaria and implications of unusual tRNA secondary structures". GeneticsGenetics (journal)Genetics is a monthly scientific journal publishing investigations bearing on heredity, genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology. Genetics is published by the Genetics Society of America...
145: 749-758. , abstract. - Welter-Schultes F. W. (2001). "Spatial variations in Albinaria terebra land snail morphology in Crete (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae): constraints for older and younger colonizations?" PaleobiologyPaleobiology (journal)Paleobiology is a scientific journal promoting the integration of biology and conventional palæontology, with emphasis placed on biological or paleobiological processes and patterns. It attracts papers of interest to more than one discipline, and occasionally publishes research on recent organisms...
27(2): 348-368, .
External links
- http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~fwelter/research.htm
- http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=1