''Mediterranea'' 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
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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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s in the family
Oxychilidae
Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
Distribution
The distribution of Oxychilidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palear ...
, the glass snails.
[ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mediterranea Clessin, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996642 on 2021-07-06]
Species
* ''
Mediterranea adamii''
(Westerlund, 1886)
* ''
Mediterranea aliatahani''
(A. Riedel, 1984)
* ''
Mediterranea amaltheae''
(A. Riedel & Subai, 1982)
* ''
Mediterranea depressa''
(Sterki, 1880)
* ''
Mediterranea hydatina''
(Rossmässler, 1838)
* ''
Mediterranea inopinata''
(Uličný, 1887)
* ''
Mediterranea ionica''
(A. Riedel & Subai, 1978)
* ''
Mediterranea juliae''
(A. Riedel, 1990)
* ''
Mediterranea montivaga''
(M. Kimakowicz, 1890)
* ''
Mediterranea planorbis''
(Möllendorff, 1899)
* ''
Mediterranea planospiroides''
(A. Riedel, 1969)
* ''
Mediterranea polygyra''
(Pollonera, 1885)
* ''
Mediterranea pygmaea''
(A. Riedel, 1983)
* ''
Mediterranea samsunensis''
(Retowski, 1889)
* ''
Mediterranea serbica''
(A. Riedel, 1969)
* ''
Mediterranea wiktori''
(A. Riedel, 1997)
* ''
Mediterranea xylocola''
Örstan, 2020
;Uncertain species:
* ''Mediterranea mariensis''
E. Gittenberger, 2008
* ''Mediterranea mylonasi''
(A. Riedel, 1983)
* ''Mediterranea pieperi''
(A. Riedel, 1973)
References
* Schileyko, A. A. (2003). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 10. Ariophantidae, Ostracolethidae, Ryssotidae, Milacidae, Dyakiidae, Staffordiidae, Gastrodontidae, Zonitidae, Daudebardiidae, Parmacellidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 1309-1466. Moskva
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
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Oxychilidae
Gastropod genera