''Gonospira'' 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 molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
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 inclu ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the subfamily Orthogibbinae of the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora.
Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic.
Six Streptaxi ...
.
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Distribution
Distribution of the genus ''Gonospira'' include:
*
Mauritius
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and
Rodrigues
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*
Réunion
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[Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". '']Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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'' 160: 1-16. .
Species
Species within the genus ''Gonospira'' include:
* ''
Gonospira adamsiana''
(G.Nevill & H. Nevill, 1871)
* ''
Gonospira bacilla''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
* ''
Gonospira barclayi''
(H. Adams, 1868)
* ''
Gonospira bourguignati''
(Deshayes, 1863)
* ''
Gonospira brevis''
(Morelet, 1867)
* ''
Gonospira callifera''
(Morelet, 1860)
* ''
Gonospira chloris''
Crosse, 1873
* ''
Gonospira cylindrella''
(H. Adams, 1868)
* ''
Gonospira deshayesi''
(H. Adams, 1868)
* ''
Gonospira dupontiana'' Nevill, 1870
* ''
Gonospira funiculus''
(Valenciennes in Pfeiffer, 1842)
* ''
Gonospira holostoma'' Morelet, 1875
* ''
Gonospira larreyi''
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
* ''
Gonospira madgei''
Kennard, 1943
* ''
Gonospira majuscula''
(Morelet, 1878)
* ''
Gonospira mauritiana''
(Morelet, 1860)
* ''
Gonospira metableta''
Crosse, 1874
* ''
Gonospira modiola''
(Férussac, 1821)
* ''
Gonospira mondraini''
(H. Adams, 1868)
* † ''
Gonospira nevilli''
(H. Adams, 1867)
* ''
Gonospira palanga''
(Lesson, 1831)
* ''
Gonospira producta
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''
(H. Adams, 1868)
* ''
Gonospira rodriguezensis''
Crosse, 1873
* ''
Gonospira striaticosta''
Morelet, 1866
* ''
Gonospira teres''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
* ''
Gonospira testudiae''
Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
* ''
Gonospira turgidula''
(Deshayes, 1863)
* ''
Gonospira uvula
''Gonospira uvula'' is a species of small air-breathing land snail, terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.
Distribution
This species is Endemism, endemic to List of non-marine molluscs of Réunion ...
''
Deshayes, 1863
* ''
Gonospira versipolis''
(Deshayes, 1851)
* ''
Gonospira viaderi''
(Madge, 1938)
References
External links
Germain, L. (1919). Contributions à la faune malacologique de l'Afrique Équatoriale. LVII. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie. 25 (4) : 258-265. Paris
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Streptaxidae
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