''Graniberia'' is a genus of 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 ...
, a
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
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. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the subfamily Granariinae of 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 ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Graniberia E. Gittenberger, Kokshoorn, Bössneck, Reijnen & Groenenberg, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1000310 on 2021-01-04]
Species
* ''
Graniberia braunii''
(Rossmässler, 1842) (synonym: ''Granaria braunii braunii''
(Rossmässler, 1842)
References
* Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Rossmässler, E. A. (1838-1844). Iconographie der Land- & Süßwasser- Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten. (1) 2 (1/2) [7/8 4 + 1-44. pl 31-40 [≥ June 1838]; (1) 2 (3/4) [9-10]: I-IV + 1-46. pl. 41-50 [≥ Sept. 1839]; (1) 2 (5) [11]: I-IV + 1–15. pl. 51–55 [≥ June 1842]; (1) 2 (6) [12]: I-IV + 1-37. pl. 56-60 [≥Sept. 1844]. [Dresden und Leipzig (Arnoldische Buchhandlung)]
Chondrinidae
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