Abida (gastropod)

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Abida is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Chondrinidae.

Abida
Eight shells of Abida secale
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Chondrinidae
Genus: Abida
Turton, 1831[1]

Distribution

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This is a European genus. It consists of about 10 species, most of which are restricted to the Pyrenees and Cantabrian mountains in France and Spain. Only Abida secale and Abida polyodon occur outside this area.

Species

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The species in this genus include:[2][3][4]

Image Binomial name Distribution
    Abida attenuata  
    Abida bigerrensis  
    Abida cylindrica  
Abida gittenbergeri  
  Abida occidentalis  
    Abida partioti  
    Abida polyodon  
    Abida pyrenaeria  
    Abida secale  
  Abida vasconica  
  Abida vergniesiana

Habitat

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The species in this genus all are restricted to areas with calcareous rocks, i.e. limestone areas.

References

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  1. ^ Turton W. (1831). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands arranged according to the more modern systems of classification; and described from perfect specimens in the author's cabinet: with coloured plates of every species. pp. i-viii [= 1-8], 1-152, Pl. [1-10]. London. page 101.
  2. ^ "Abida Turton 1831". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on October 1, 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  3. ^ "Species in genus Abida". AnimalBase. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  4. ^ Kokshoorn, B. and Gittenberger, E. 2010. Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: New synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Zootaxa 2539: 1-62.
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