Abida (gastropod)

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

Abida
Eight shells of Abida secale scale bar in mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Chondrinidae
Genus:	Abida Turton, 1831[1]

Distribution

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

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

• Abida ateni Gittenberger, 1973
• Abida attenuata (Fagot, 1886)
• Abida bigerrensis (Moquin-Tandon, 1856)
• Abida cylindrica (Michaud, 1829)
• Abida gittenbergeri Bössneck, 2000
• Abida occidentalis (Fagot, 1888)
• Abida partioti (Saint-Simon, 1848)
• Abida polyodon (Draparnaud, 1801)
• Abida pyrenaearia (Michaud, 1831)
• Abida secale (Draparnaud, 1801)
• Abida vasconica (Kobelt, 1882)
• Abida vergniesiana (Küster, 1847)

Habitat

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

References

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. 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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