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Chondrina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Pupilloidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Chondrinidae

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Chondrinidae, Chondrina avenacea, Truncatellina, Cochlostoma, Cecilioides

Chondrina massotiana massotiana


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

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All species of Chondrina are restricted to the West Palaearctic. Centers of species diversity are found on the Iberian peninsula, in northern Italy and in the Balkans. The species are restricted to calcareous rocks, and occur only on vertical, exposed rock faces.

Chondrina calpica


Species

There are about 37 extant species in the genus Chondrina, with four new species described in 2010.

  • Chondrina altimirai Gittenberger, 1973
  • Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881) - per AnimalBase is its synonym Chondrina clienta (Westerlund, 1883) but it is considered valid by other authors
  • Chondrina arigonis (Rossmässler, 1859)
  • Chondrina arigonoides Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010
  • Chondrina ascendens (Westerlund, 1878)
  • Chondrina avenacea (Bruguière, 1792) - type species
  • Chondrina bergomensis (Küster, 1850)
  • Chondrina bigorriensis (Des Moulins, 1835)
  • Chondrina calpica (Westerlund, 1872)
  • Chondrina centralis (Fagot, 1891)
  • Chondrina falkneri Gittenberger, 2002
  • Chondrina farinesii (Des Moulins, 1835)
  • Chondrina gasulli Gittenberger, 1973
  • Chondrina generosensis Nordsieck, 1962
  • Chondrina gerhardi Gittenberger, 2002
  • Chondrina granatensis Alonso, 1974
  • Chondrina ingae Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010
  • Chondrina klemmi Gittenberger, 1973
  • Chondrina kobelti (Westerlund, 1887)
  • Chondrina kobeltoides Gittenberger, 1973
  • Chondrina lusitanica (Pfeiffer, 1848)
  • Chondrina marjae Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010
  • Chondrina marmouchana (Pallary, 1928)
  • Chondrina megacheilos (De Cristofori & Jan, 1832)
  • Chondrina multidentata (Strobel, 1851)
  • Chondrina oligodonta (Del Prete, 1879)
  • Chondrina pseudavenacea Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010
  • Chondrina ripkeni Gittenberger, 1973
  • Chondrina spelta (Beck, 1837)
  • Chondrina tatrica Ložek, 1948
  • Chondrina tenuimarginata (Des Moulins, 1835)

    • References

    Chondrina Wikipedia
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