Carpathica

Carpathica is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae.

Carpathica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade Limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Gastrodontoidea
Family:
Oxychilidae
Subfamily:
Daudebardiinae
Genus:
Carpathica

Wagner, 1895[1]

Distribution

Distribution of Carpathica include south-eastern Europe and Turkey.[2]

Description

Animal cannot withdraw into the shell.[2] The shell is with 0.5-2 whorls.[2] The last whorl is much inflated.[2]

Reproductive system: Penis is more or less long, usually cylindrical, with appendix (flagellum) at its terminal end.[2] Vas deferens is inserting laterally (subterminally).[2] Retractor connects at appendix.[2] Vagina is usually shorter, surrounded by a vaginal gland in its posterior part.[2] Spermatheca duct is usually short and usually inserting in the zone covered by the vaginal gland.[2] The spermatheca is spherical or ovoid.[2] Oviduct is usually short and sometimes thinner than penis and vagina.[2] Atrium is short.[2]

Carpathica differs from Daudebardia in the presence of an appendix or flagellum at the apical end of the penis; vas deferens inserts subterminally (in Daudebardia terminally).[2]

If Daudebardia transsylvanica is conspecific with Carpathica langi, which is likely if results by Alexandru Vasile Grossu (1983)[3] are tenable (they suggest an uninterrupted gradient between both forms),[2] then there are no differences between Daudebardia and Carpathica, neither in shell not in the anatomy,[2] and the species classified in Carpathica should be placed in Daudebardia.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Carpathica include:

  • Carpathica amisena (Forcart, 1950)[4]
  • Carpathica bielawskii Riedel, 1963[4]
  • Carpathica boettgeri (Clessin, 1883)[4]
  • Carpathica calophana (Westerlund, 1881)[4] – type species
  • Carpathica cretica (Forcart, 1950)[4]
  • Carpathica denticulata Grossu, 1969[4]
  • Carpathica insularis Riedel, 1988[4]
  • Carpathica langi (Pfeiffer, 1846)[4]
  • Carpathica stussineri (Wagner, 1895)[4]
  • Carpathica wirthi Forcart, 1971[4]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[2]

  1. Wagner A. J. (1895). "Die Arten des Genus Daudebardia Hartmann in Europa und Westasien. Eine kritische Studie." Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe 62: 609-626, Taf. I-V [= 1-5]. Wien.
  2. "Genus summary for Carpathica". AnimalBase, last modified 13 January 2009, accessed 4 September 2010.
  3. Grossu A. V. (1983). Gastropoda Romaniae 4. Ordo Stylommatophora. Suprafam.: Arionacea, Zonitacea, Ariophantacea şi Helicacea. pp. 1–564. București. (Editura Litera).
  4. "Species in genus Carpathica". [n=10] AnimalBase, accessed 4 September 2010.
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