''Abida'' is a

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of small air-breathing

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s in the family

Chondrinidae Chondrinidae is a family of mostly minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata. Anatomy In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values i ...

Distribution

This is a European genus. It consists of about 10 species, most of which are restricted to the

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and Cantabrian mountains in

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and

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Abida secale ''Abida secale'' is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Chondrinidae. Distribution The distribution of this species is Western European and Alpine regions. Lisický M. J. (1991)' ...

'' and '' Abida polyodon'' occur outside this area.

Species

The species in this genus include: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. * '' Abida ateni'' Gittenberger, 1973 * '' Abida attenuata'' (Fagot, 1886) * '' Abida bigerrensis'' (Moquin-Tandon, 1856) * '' Abida cylindrica'' (Michaud, 1829) * '' Abida gittenbergeri'' Bössneck, 2000 * '' Abida occidentalis'' (Fagot, 1888) * '' Abida partioti'' (Saint-Simon, 1848) * '' Abida polyodon'' (Draparnaud, 1801) * '' Abida pyrenaearia'' (Michaud, 1831) * ''

'' (Draparnaud, 1801) * '' Abida vasconica'' (Kobelt, 1882) * '' Abida vergniesiana'' (Küster, 1847)

Habitat

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

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areas.

References

External links

* Chondrinidae Gastropods of Europe Taxa named by William Turton {{Chondrinidae-stub