Mediterranea (gastropod)

Mediterranea is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.[1]

Mediterranea
Shell of Mediterranea hydatina hydatina (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
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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

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Uncertain species
  • Mediterranea mariensis E. Gittenberger, 2008
  • Mediterranea mylonasi (A. Riedel, 1983)
  • Mediterranea pieperi (A. Riedel, 1973)

References

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  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mediterranea Clessin, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996642 on 2021-07-06
  • 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.
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