''Chondrina'' is a
genus
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of small air-breathing
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 ...
s,
terrestrial 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 includ ...
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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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 ...
.
All species of ''Chondrina'' are restricted to the West
Palaearctic. Centers of species diversity are found on the
Iberian peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...
, in northern
Italy
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and in
the Balkans
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. The species are restricted to calcareous rocks, and occur only on vertical, exposed rock faces.
Species
There are more than 40
[Kokshoorn B., Schoor M. van, Erkelens I. & Gittenberger E. (2010). "Waves of dispersal in island-hopping Chondrina species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Chondrinidae)". '']Zoologischer Anzeiger
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/ref> extant species in the genus ''Chondrina'', with four new species described in 2010.["Species in genus ''Chondrina''](_blank)
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* '' Chondrina amphorula'' Schileyko, 1984
* '' Chondrina arcadica'' (Reinhardt, 1881)Chondrina avenacea
''Chondrina avenacea'' is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chondrinidae.
;Subspecies:
* ''Chondrina avenacea avenacea'' (Bruguière, 1792)
* ''Chondrina ...
'' (Bruguière, 1792) - type species[Kokshoorn B. & Gittenberger E. (2010). "Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: new synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". '']Zootaxa
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* '' Chondrina jumillensis'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
* '' Chondrina keltiensis'' Ahuir & Torres, 2017
* '' Chondrina klemmi'' Gittenberger, 1973
References
External links
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Chondrinidae
Gastropod genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Ludwig Reichenbach