''Zospeum'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
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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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mollusk
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s in the family
Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae, common name the hollow-shelled snails, is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata.Bouchet, P. (2012). Ellobiidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
, the
salt marsh
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snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Zospeum'' include:
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Zospeum allegrettii'' Conci, 1956
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Zospeum alpestre'' (Freyer, 1855)
*** ''Zospeum alpestre alpestre'' (Freyer, 1855)
*** ''Zospeum alpestre kupitzense'' A. Stummer, 1984
*** ''Zospeum alpestre bolei'' Slapnik, 1991
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Zospeum amoenum'' (Frauenfeld, 1856)
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Zospeum bellesi'' Gittenberger, 1973
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Zospeum biscaiense'' Gómez & Prieto, 1983
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Zospeum bucculentum'' Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019
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Zospeum cariadeghense'' Allegretti, 1944
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Zospeum clathratum'' Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019
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Zospeum costatum'' (Freyer, 1855)
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Zospeum exiguum'' Kuščer, 1932
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Zospeum frauenfeldii'' (Freyer, 1855)
*** ''Zospeum frauenfeldii frauenfeldii'' (Freyer, 1855)
*** ''Zospeum frauenfeldii osolei'' Slapnik, 1994
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Zospeum freyeri'' (F.J. Schmidt, 1849)
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Zospeum galvagnii'' Conci, 1956
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Zospeum globosum'' Kušcer, 1928
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Zospeum gittenbergeri'' Jochum, Prieto & De Winter, 2019
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Zospeum isselianum'' Pollonera, 1887
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Zospeum kupitzense'' A. Stummer, 1984
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Zospeum kusceri'' Wagner, 1912
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Zospeum lamellatum'' Bole, 1974
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Zospeum lautum'' (Frauenfeld, 1854)
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Zospeum likanum'' Bole, 1960
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Zospeum manitaense'' Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019
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Zospeum obesum'' (Frauenfeld, 1854)
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Zospeum percostulatum'' Alonso, Prieto, Quiñonero-Salgado & Rolán, 2018
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Zospeum pagodulum'' Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019
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Zospeum praetermissum'' Jochum, Prieto & De Winter, 2019
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Zospeum pretneri'' Bole, 1960
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Zospeum robustum '' Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019
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Zospeum schaufussi'' Frauenfeld, 1862
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Zospeum spelaeum'' (Rossmässler, 1839))
*** ''Zospeum spelaeum spelaeum'' (Rossmässler, 1839)
*** ''Zospeum spelaeum schmidti'' (Frauenfeld, 1854)
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Zospeum subobesum'' Bole, 1974
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Zospeum tholussum
''Zospeum tholussum'' or the domed land snail, is a cave-dwelling species of air-breathing land snails in the family Ellobiidae. It is a very small species, with a shell height of less than and a shell width of around . ''Z. tholussum'' indivi ...
'' Weigand, 2013
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Zospeum trebicianum'' Stossich, 1899
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Zospeum turriculatum'' Allegretti, 1944
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Zospeum troglobalcanicum'' Absolon, 1916
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Zospeum vasconicum'' Prieto, De Winter, Weigand, Gómez & Jochum, 2015
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Zospeum zaldivarae'' Prieto, De Winter, Weigand, Gómez & Jochum, 2015
Literature
*Weigand, AM 2013: New ''Zospeum'' species (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae) from 980 m depth in the Lukina Jama–Trojama cave system (Velebit Mts., Croatia). Subterranean Biology 11, 45-53.
*Weigand, AM, Jochum, A, Slapnik, R, Schnitzler, J, Zarza, E und Klussmann-Kolb, A 2013: Evolution of microgastropods (Ellobioidea, Carychiidae): integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and evolutionary hypotheses
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:18(PDF; 2,7 MB)
*Jochum, A., Weigand, A. M., Slapnik, R., Valentinčič, J., & Prieto, C. E. (2012). The microscopic ellobioid, ''Zospeum'' Bourguignat, 1856 (Pulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae) makes a big debut in Basque Country and the province of Burgos (Spain). MalaCo, 8, 400-40
(PDF)
References
[ Weigand, A. (2013). New ''Zospeum'' species (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae) from 980 m depth in the Lukina Jama–Trojama cave system (Velebit Mts., Croatia). Subterranean Biology, 11, 45. ]
[ Jochum, A., De Winter, A. J., Weigand, A. M., Gómez, B., & Prieto, C. (2015). Two new species of ''Zospeum'' Bourguignat, 1856 from the Basque-Cantabrian Mountains, Northern Spain (Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae). ZooKeys, (483), 81. doi:10.3897/zookeys.483.9167]
[ Alonso A, Prieto CE, Quiñonero-Salgado S, Rolán E (2018) A morphological gap for Iberian ''Zospeum'' filled: ''Zospeum percostulatum'' sp. n. (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Carychiidae) a new species from Asturias (Spain). Subterranean Biology 25: 35-48. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.25.23364]
[Inäbnit, T., Jochum, A., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., Ruthensteiner, B., Slapnik, R., ... & Neubert, E. (2019). An integrative taxonomic study reveals carychiid microsnails of the troglobitic genus ''Zospeum'' in the Eastern and Dinaric Alps (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiinae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 19(2), 135-17]
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[Jochum, A., Prieto, C. E., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., Ruthensteiner, B., Vrabec, M., ... & de Winter, A. J. (2019). Re-evaluation of Zospeum schaufussi von Frauenfeld, 1862 and Z. suarezi Gittenberger, 1980, including the description of two new Iberian species using Computer Tomography (CT)(Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae). ZooKeys 835: 65–86.]
[Jochum, A., Slapnik, R., Klussmann-Kolb, A., Páll-Gergely, B., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., ... & Weigand, A. M. (2015). Groping through the black box of variability: An integrative taxonomic and nomenclatural re-evaluation of ''Zospeum isselianum'' Pollonera, 1887 and allied species using new imaging technology (Nano-CT, SEM), conchological, histological and molecular data (Ellobioidea, Carychiidae). Subterranean Biology, 16, 123-165.]
External links
Animalbase - ''Zospeum''Molluscs of central Europe
Ellobiidae
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