Albinaria
Genus of gastropods
Albinaria genus of air-breathing land snails , terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae , called the door snails.[ 3]
Ecology and Life Cycle
These species of snails live on limestone rocks, where they feed on algae and lichen. They are known to be active during the rainy seasons, that is, in Mediterranean lowlands, from November to April. Eggs are laid shortly after the beginning of the wet season. It takes two to three wet seasons for development from a juvenile to a fully grown shell . During the intermittent dry seasons, both young and adult snails, aestivate ("the warm weather equivalent of hibernation"[ 4] Drilus . These insects attack the snails during their aestivation, by perforating the shell and eating the snail inside.[ 5]
Distribution
Distribution of the genus Albinaria includes:
southern Albania
Greece
Cyprus
western and southern Turkey
Lebanon
Species
Species in this genus include 111 species:[ 6]
Albinaria adrianae Albinaria adriani Albinaria alajana Albinaria amalthea Albinaria anatolica Albinaria arcadica Albinaria argynnis Albinaria ariadne Albinaria arthuriana Albinaria avia Albinaria basalifera Albinaria bigibbosula Albinaria brevicollis Albinaria broemmei Albinaria butoti Albinaria byzantina (Charpentier, 1852) Albinaria caerulea Albinaria campylauchen Albinaria candida Albinaria cerigottana Albinaria christae Albinaria compressa Albinaria confusa Albinaria contaminata Albinaria corrugata Albinaria cretensis Albinaria cristatella Albinaria cytherae Albinaria discolor Albinaria eburnea Albinaria edmundi Albinaria evelynae Albinaria forbesiana Albinaria freytagi Albinaria fuchskaeufeli Albinaria gerolimena Albinaria grayana Albinaria greeni Albinaria grisea Albinaria haessleini Albinaria hians Albinaria hippolyti Albinaria hohorsti Albinaria idaea Albinaria idyllica Albinaria ietswaarti Albinaria inauris Albinaria ithomensis Albinaria jaeckeli Albinaria janicollis Albinaria janisadana Albinaria jonica Albinaria kemerensis Albinaria klemmi Albinaria krueperi Albinaria latelamellaris Albinaria lerosiensis Albinaria li Albinaria linnei Albinaria litoraria Albinaria lycica Albinaria maculosa Albinaria maltzani Albinaria manselli Albinaria mavromoustakisi Albinaria menelaus Albinaria mixta Albinaria monocristata Albinaria moreletiana Albinaria munda Albinaria myrensis Albinaria nadimi Albinaria nivea Albinaria olivieri Albinaria papillifera Albinaria pellucida Albinaria pelocarinata Albinaria percristata Albinaria petrosa Albinaria praeclara Albinaria profuga Albinaria proteus Albinaria puella Albinaria rebeli Albinaria rechingeri Albinaria retusa Albinaria rollei Albinaria saxatilis Albinaria schuetti Albinaria scopulosa Albinaria senilis Albinaria solicola Albinaria sphakiota Albinaria spratti Albinaria staudingeri Albinaria sturanyi Albinaria subaii Albinaria sublamellosa Albinaria supercarinata Albinaria tenuicostata Albinaria terebra Albinaria teres Albinaria thiesseae Albinaria torticollis Albinaria turrita Albinaria violacea Albinaria virgo Albinaria voithii Albinaria wettsteini Albinaria wiesei Albinaria xanthostoma Albinaria zilchi
References
^ (in German) Vest, W. von 1867. Ueber den Schliessapparat der Clausilien . Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften in Hermannstadt 18 (1, 7, 8): 5-18, 161-174, 188-196.^ "Species in genus Albinaria n=116" . AnimalBase, accessed 10 March 2011.^ Schilthuizen, M., 1994. Differentiation and Hybridisation in a Polytypic Snail. PhD Thesis, Leiden University.
^ Gould, S.J., 1985. The Flamingo's Smile; Reflections in Natural History. Norton, New York
^ Baalbergen, E., R. Helwerda, R. Schelfhorst, R.F.Castillo Cajas, C.H.M. van Moorsel, R. Kundrata, F.W. Welter-Schultes, S. Giokas & M. Schilthuizen, 2014. Predator-prey interactions between shell-boring beetle larvae and rock-dwelling land snails. PLoS ONE, 9(6): e100366 ^ Species in genus Albinaria
Further reading
De Weerd, D. R. U. T.; 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 Society . 143 (4): 531. doi :10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00154.x 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 gene organizations of Euhadra, Cepaea and Albinaria and implications of unusual tRNA secondary structures" . Genetics . 145 (3): 749–758. doi :10.1093/genetics/145.3.749 . PMC 1207859 PMID 9055084 . Welter-Schultes, F. W. (2001). "Spatial variations inAlbinaria terebraland snail morphology in Crete (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae): Constraints for older and younger colonizations?". Paleobiology . 27 (2): 348–368. doi :10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0348:SVIATL>2.0.CO;2 . ISSN 0094-8373 . S2CID 85832001 .
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