Chondrina

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

Chondrina
shells of Chondrina avenacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
Chondrinidae
Genus:
Chondrina

Synonyms
  • Alloglossa Lindström, 1868
  • Chondrina (Chondrina) Reichenbach, 1828 (no subgenera are recognized)
  • Modicella H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
  • Pupa (Modicella) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855

All species of Chondrina are restricted to the West Palaearctic. Centers of species diversity are found on the Iberian peninsula, in northern Italy and in the Balkans. The species are restricted to calcareous rocks, and occur only on vertical, exposed rock faces.

Species

There are more than 40[2] extant species in the genus Chondrina, with four new species described in 2010.[3]

  • Chondrina aguilari Altimira, 1967
  • Chondrina altimirai Gittenberger, 1973[4]
  • Chondrina amphorula Schileyko, 1984
  • Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881)[4] - per AnimalBase is its synonym Chondrina clienta (Westerlund, 1883)[4] but it is considered valid by other authors
  • Chondrina arigonis (Rossmässler, 1859)[4]
  • Chondrina arigonoides Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010[3]
  • Chondrina ascendens (Westerlund, 1878)[4]
  • Chondrina avenacea (Bruguière, 1792) - type species[4]
  • Chondrina bergomensis (Küster, 1850)[4]
  • Chondrina bigorriensis (Des Moulins, 1835)[4]
  • Chondrina calpica (Westerlund, 1872)[4]
  • Chondrina centralis (Fagot, 1891)[4]
  • Chondrina cliendentata E. Gittenberger, 1973
  • Chondrina dertosensis (Bofill, 1886)
  • Chondrina falkneri Gittenberger, 2002[4]
  • Chondrina farinesii (Des Moulins, 1835)[4]
  • Chondrina feneriensis Bodon, Nardi, Cianfanelli & Kokshoorn, 2015
  • Chondrina gasulli Gittenberger, 1973[4]
  • Chondrina gavirai Ahuir & Torres, 2017
  • Chondrina generosensis Nordsieck, 1962[4]
  • Chondrina gerhardi Gittenberger, 2002[4]
  • Chondrina gomezi Ahuir & Torres, 2017
  • Chondrina granatensis Alonso, 1974[4]
  • Chondrina guiraonis Pilsbry, 1918
  • Chondrina ingae Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010[3]
  • Chondrina jumillensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
  • Chondrina keltiensis Ahuir & Torres, 2017
  • Chondrina klemmi Gittenberger, 1973[4]
  • Chondrina kobelti (Westerlund, 1887)[4]
  • Chondrina kobeltoides Gittenberger, 1973[4]
  • Chondrina lusitanica (Pfeiffer, 1848)[4]
  • Chondrina maginensis Arrébola & Gómez, 1998
  • Chondrina marjae Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010[3]
  • Chondrina marmouchana (Pallary, 1928)[4]
  • Chondrina massotiana (Bourguignat, 1863)
  • Chondrina megacheilos (De Cristofori & Jan, 1832)[4]
  • Chondrina multidentata (Strobel, 1851)[4]
  • Chondrina oligodonta (Del Prete, 1879)[4]
  • Chondrina pseudavenacea Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010[3]
  • Chondrina pseudoteresae Ahuir & Torres, 2017
  • Chondrina ripkeni Gittenberger, 1973[4]
  • Chondrina soleri Altimira, 1960
  • Chondrina spelta (Beck, 1837)[4]
  • Chondrina tatrica Ložek, 1948[4]
  • Chondrina tenuimarginata (Des Moulins, 1835)[4]

References
  1. Reichenbach H. G. L. (1828). Zoologie oder Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs nach eigenen Ansichten bearbeitet. Theil 1. Allgemeine Taschenbibliothek der Naturwissenschaften Theil V. Zoologie. Dresden.
  2. Kokshoorn B., Schoor M. van, Erkelens I. & Gittenberger E. (2010). "Waves of dispersal in island-hopping Chondrina species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Chondrinidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2010.02.001. PDF
  3. Kokshoorn B. & Gittenberger E. (2010). "Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: new synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Zootaxa 2539: 1-62. 22 plates. preview.
  4. "Species in genus Chondrina [n=27]. AnimalBase. accessed 1 August 2010.
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