Mediterranea (gastropod)

Mediterranea is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.

Mediterranea
Shell of Mediterranea hydatina hydatina (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Oxychilidae
Subfamily:	Oxychilinae
Genus:	Mediterranea Clessin, 1880
Synonyms
Diaphanella P. Hesse, 1916 Geodiaphana Thiele, 1917 Hydatina Westerlund, 1886 Oxychilus (Riedelius) Hudec, 1961 Riedeliconcha Schileyko, 2003 Riedelius Hudec, 1961

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 16, 2017.

External links

• Media related to Mediterranea at Wikimedia Commons