''Zospeum'' is a
genus
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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 ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
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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 ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Ellobiidae, the
salt marsh
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snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Zospeum'' include:
** ''
Zospeum allegrettii'' Conci, 1956
** ''
Zospeum alpestre'' (Freyer, 1855)
*** ''Zospeum alpestre alpestre'' (Freyer, 1855)
*** ''Zospeum alpestre kupitzense'' A. Stummer, 1984
*** ''Zospeum alpestre bolei'' Slapnik, 1991
** ''
Zospeum amoenum'' (Frauenfeld, 1856)
** ''
Zospeum bellesi
''Zospeum'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Zospeum'' include:
** '' Zospeum allegrettii'' Conci, 1956
** ' ...
'' Gittenberger, 1973
** ''
Zospeum biscaiense'' Gómez & Prieto, 1983
** ''
Zospeum bucculentum'' Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019
** ''
Zospeum cariadeghense'' Allegretti, 1944
** ''
Zospeum clathratum'' Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019
** ''
Zospeum costatum
''Zospeum'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Zospeum'' include:
** '' Zospeum allegrettii'' Conci, 1956
** '' ...
'' (Freyer, 1855)
** ''
Zospeum exiguum'' Kuščer, 1932
** ''
Zospeum frauenfeldii
''Zospeum'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.
Species
Species within the genus ''Zospeum'' include:
** '' Zospeum allegrettii'' Conci, 1956
** ' ...
'' (Freyer, 1855)
*** ''Zospeum frauenfeldii frauenfeldii'' (Freyer, 1855)
*** ''Zospeum frauenfeldii osolei'' Slapnik, 1994
** ''
Zospeum freyeri'' (F.J. Schmidt, 1849)
** ''
Zospeum galvagnii'' Conci, 1956
** ''
Zospeum globosum'' Kušcer, 1928
** ''
Zospeum gittenbergeri'' Jochum, Prieto & De Winter, 2019
** ''
Zospeum isselianum'' Pollonera, 1887
** ''
Zospeum kupitzense'' A. Stummer, 1984
** ''
Zospeum kusceri'' Wagner, 1912
** ''
Zospeum lamellatum'' Bole, 1974
** ''
Zospeum lautum'' (Frauenfeld, 1854)
** ''
Zospeum likanum'' Bole, 1960
** ''
Zospeum manitaense'' Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019
** ''
Zospeum obesum'' (Frauenfeld, 1854)
** ''
Zospeum percostulatum'' Alonso, Prieto, Quiñonero-Salgado & Rolán, 2018
** ''
Zospeum pagodulum'' Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019
** ''
Zospeum praetermissum'' Jochum, Prieto & De Winter, 2019
** ''
Zospeum pretneri'' Bole, 1960
** ''
Zospeum robustum '' Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019
** ''
Zospeum schaufussi'' Frauenfeld, 1862
** ''
Zospeum spelaeum'' (Rossmässler, 1839))
*** ''Zospeum spelaeum spelaeum'' (Rossmässler, 1839)
*** ''Zospeum spelaeum schmidti'' (Frauenfeld, 1854)
** ''
Zospeum subobesum'' Bole, 1974
** ''
Zospeum tholussum'' Weigand, 2013
** ''
Zospeum trebicianum'' Stossich, 1899
** ''
Zospeum turriculatum'' Allegretti, 1944
** ''
Zospeum troglobalcanicum'' Absolon, 1916
** ''
Zospeum vasconicum'' Prieto, De Winter, Weigand, Gómez & Jochum, 2015
** ''
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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