Abida (gastropod)

Abida
Eight shells of Abida secale
scale bar in mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Chondrinidae
Genus: Abida
Turton, 1831[1]

Abida is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Chondrinidae.

Distribution

This is a European genus. It consists of about 10 species, most of which are restricted to the Pyrenees and Cantabrian mountains in France and Spain. Only Abida secale and Abida polyodon occur outside this area.

Species

The species in this genus include:[2][3][4]

Image Binomial name Distribution
Abida attenuata
Abida bigerrensis
Abida cylindrica
Abida gittenbergeri
Abida occidentalis
Abida partioti
Abida polyodon
Abida pyrenaeria
Abida secale
Abida vasconica
Abida vergniesiana

Habitat

The species in this genus all are restricted to areas with calcareous rocks, i.e. limestone areas.

References

  1. ^ Turton W. (1831). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands arranged according to the more modern systems of classification; and described from perfect specimens in the author's cabinet: with coloured plates of every species. pp. i-viii [= 1-8], 1-152, Pl. [1-10]. London. page 101.
  2. ^ "Abida Turton 1831". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on October 1, 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  3. ^ "Species in genus Abida". AnimalBase. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  4. ^ Kokshoorn, B. and Gittenberger, E. 2010. Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: New synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Zootaxa 2539: 1-62.
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