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Xerogyra
''Xerogyra'' is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. The genus is distributed in the Italian Peninsula. ''Xerogyra'' species were within the genus ''Candidula'' until a molecular phylogeny revealed the polyphyly of ''Candidula'' and, the genus ''Xerogyra'' Monterosato, 1892 was recovered. Species Species within the genus ''Xeroplexa'' include: * ''Xerogyra fiorii'' (Alzona & Alzona Bisacchi, 1938) * ''Xerogyra grovesiana ''Xerogyra grovesiana'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. Distribution This species occurs in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) o ...'' (Paulucci, 1881) * '' Xerogyra spadae'' (Calcara, 1845) References * Kobelt, W. (1892). Literaturbericht. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 24 (7/8): 149-152. Frankfurt am Main * Bank, R. A. (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerogyra Spadae
''Xerogyra spadae'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerogyra spadae (Calcara, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1308889 on 2022-07-28 The specific name ''spadae'', "Spada's", Pietro Calcara commemorated Giovanni Jacopo Spada (1680–1774), an Italian naturalist and pioneering geologist of Verona. Distribution ''Candidula spadae'' is native to Central Italy. The species in sparsely distributed. It is found in the central Apennines. However, the IUCN asserts that the species is also found in extension to Gargano. It is found in the Sibillini Mountains, including Monte Vettore, and then southward to the Monti Reatini, the Gran Sasso d'Italia, and the Monti della Meta. Description The shell of ''Xerogyra spadae'' is pale white in color. Often, there are narrow light browni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerogyra
''Xerogyra'' is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae. The genus is distributed in the Italian Peninsula. ''Xerogyra'' species were within the genus ''Candidula'' until a molecular phylogeny revealed the polyphyly of ''Candidula'' and, the genus ''Xerogyra'' Monterosato, 1892 was recovered. Species Species within the genus ''Xeroplexa'' include: * ''Xerogyra fiorii'' (Alzona & Alzona Bisacchi, 1938) * ''Xerogyra grovesiana ''Xerogyra grovesiana'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. Distribution This species occurs in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) o ...'' (Paulucci, 1881) * '' Xerogyra spadae'' (Calcara, 1845) References * Kobelt, W. (1892). Literaturbericht. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 24 (7/8): 149-152. Frankfurt am Main * Bank, R. A. (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candidula
''Candidula'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae, . MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Candidula Kobelt, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426353 on 2020-07-25 the hairy snails and their allies. The genus is characterized by the presence of a big dart sac, a sac containing an arrow-like structure found on a land snail's reproductive organs. Species Species within the genus ''Candidula s.l.'' include:Welter Schultes F.(2009)"Genus summary for ''Candidula''" AnimalBase, Accessed 14 November 2014. * '' Candidula candidescens'' A. J. Wagner, 1928 (taxon inquirendum) * '' Candidula castriota'' Soós, 1924 * '' Candidula cavannae'' (Paulucci, 1881) * '' Candidula codia'' (Bourguignat, 1859) * '' Candidula eustricta'' (Bourguignat, 1863) * '' Candidula lernaea'' Hausdorf, 1991 * '' Candidula rhabdotoides'' (Wagner, 1928) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerogyra Grovesiana
''Xerogyra grovesiana'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. Distribution This species occurs in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re .... References External links * https://www.naturamediterraneo.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=42474 Paulucci, M. (1881). Contributo alla fauna malacologica italiana. Specie raccolte dal Dott. G. Cavanna negli anni 1878, 1879, 1880, con elenco delle conchiglie Abruzzesi e descrizione di due nuove Succinea. Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana. 7: 69-180 {{Commons category Gastropods described in 1881 grovesiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerogyra Fiorii
''Xerogyra fiorii'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Xerogyra fiorii (Alzona & Alzona Bisachii, 1938). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1308887 on 2020-07-25 Distribution This species occurs in Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re .... References * Alzona, C. & Alzona Bisacchi, J. (1938). Malacofauna italica. Vol. I., 93-128. Genova. (Quinto al Mare). fiorii Gastropods described in 1938 {{Geomitridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geomitridae
Geomitridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Geomitridae C.R. Boettger, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994707 on 2021-02-01 Anatomy The family is characterized by the presence of a free right ommatophoral retractor (passing outside the peni-oviducal angle) and a double stimulatory apparatus. A free right ommatophoral retractor has been linked to adaptation to xeric habitats Taxonomy The family Geomitridae is subdivided in the following subfamilies (according to Razkin ''et al.'', 2015) *Subfamily Geomitrinae ** tribe Cochlicellini Schileyko, 1972 ** tribe Geomitrini C. Boettger, 1909 - synonym: Ochthephilinae Zilch, 1960 (n.a.) ** tribe Ponentinini Razkin ''et al.'', 2015 *Subfamily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as slugs). However, it is not always easy to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less amphibious between land and fresh water, and others are relatively amphibious between land and salt water. Land snails are a polyphyletic group comprising at least ten independent evolutionary transitions to terrestrial life (the last common ancestor of all gastropods was marine). The majority of land snails are pulmonates that have a lung and breathe air. Most of the non-pulmonate land snails belong to lineages in the Caenogastropoda, and tend to have a gill and an operculum. The largest clade of land snails is the Cyclophoroidea, with more than 7,000 species. Many of these operculate land snails live in habitats or microhabitats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrestrial Animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, dogs, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g. frogs and newts). Some groups of insects are terrestrial, such as ants, butterflies, earwigs, cockroaches, grasshoppers and many others, while other groups are partially aquatic, such as mosquitoes and dragonflies, which pass their larval stages in water. Terrestrial animals tend to be more developed and intelligent than aquatic animals. Terrestrial classes The term "terrestrial" is typically applied to species that live primarily on the ground, in contrast to arboreal species, which live primarily in trees. There are other less common terms that apply to specific groups of terrestrial animals: *Saxicolous creatures are rock dwelling. "Saxicolous" is derived from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includes many land and freshwater families, and several marine families. The taxon Pulmonata as traditionally defined was found to be polyphyletic in a molecular study per Jörger ''et al.'', dating from 2010. Pulmonata are known from the Carboniferous Period to the present. Pulmonates have a single atrium and kidney, and a concentrated, symmetrical, nervous system. The mantle cavity is located on the right side of the body, and lacks gills, instead being converted into a vascularised lung. Most species have a shell, but no operculum, although the group does also include several shell-less slugs. Pulmonates are hermaphroditic, and some groups possess love darts. Linnean taxonomy The taxonomy of this group according to the taxonomy of the Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. There are many thousands of species of sea snails and slugs, as well as freshwater snails, freshwater limpets, and land snails and slugs. The class Gastropoda contains a vast total of named species, second only to the insects in overall number. The fossil history of this class goes back to the Late Cambrian. , 721 families of gastropods are known, of which 245 are extinct and appear only in the fossil record, while 476 are currently extant with or without a fossil record. Gastropoda (previously known as univalves and sometimes spelled "Gasteropoda") are a major part of the phylum Mollusca, and are the most highly diversified class in the phylum, with 65,000 to 80,000 living snail and slug species. The anatomy, behavior, feeding, and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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