Vallonia

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

Vallonia
A live individual of Vallonia pulchella
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:	Valloniidae
Genus:	Vallonia Risso, 1826[1]
Type species
Vallonia rosalia Risso, 1826
Synonyms
Amplexis T. Brown, 1827 Circinaria H. Beck, 1837 † Discus (Nanopatula) Pfeffer, 1930 Glaphyra Albers, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Glaphyra Newman, 1840 [Coleoptera]) Helix (Circinaria) Beck, 1837 (junior synonym) Helix (Glaphyra) Albers, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Glaphyra Newman, 1840 [Coleoptera]) Helix (Vallonia) Risso, 1826 † Nanopatula Pfeffer, 1930 Pulchelliana Caziot, 1910 (Invalid: junior objective synonym of Circinaria Beck, 1837) † Vallonia (Nanopatula) Pfeffer, 1930 · accepted, alternate representation Vallonia (Planivallonia) Schileyko, 1984 (junior synonym) Vallonia (Vallonia) Risso, 1826 Zurama W. Turton, 1831 (Invalid: junior objective synonym of Circinaria Beck, 1837)

A shell of Vallonia pulchella

Vallonia is the type genus of the family Valloniidae.

Species

Species in the genus Vallonia include:[2][3]

• Vallonia allamanica[4]
• Vallonia costata (O. F. Müller, 1774)[4][5]
• Vallonia cyclophorella Sterki, 1892 - silky vallonia[4]
• Vallonia declivis Sterki, 1893 - synonym: Vallonia adela[4][5]
• Vallonia eiapopeia Gerber, 1996[4]
• Vallonia enniensis (Gredler, 1856)[4][5]
• Vallonia excentrica Sterki, 1893[5] - excentric vallonia[4]
• Vallonia gracilicosta Reinhardt, 1883[4]
• Vallonia parvula Sterki, 1893[4]
• Vallonia perspectiva Sterki, 1893 - thin lip vallonia[4]
• Vallonia pulchella (O. F. Müller, 1774)[5] - lovely vallonia - type species[4]
• Vallonia suevica Geyer, 1908[4][6]
• Vallonia tenera (Reinhardt, 1877)
• Vallonia tenuilabris (Braun, 1843)[4][6][7]
• Vallonia terraenovae Gerber, 1996
• † Vallonia tumida Stworzewicz, 2007
• Vallonia zaru Almuhambetova, 1979

References

1. Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. pp. [1-3], j-vij [= 1-7], 1-439, pl. [1-12]. Paris. (Levrault).
2. Forsyth R. G. Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia. Family Valloniidae. Accessed 25 April 2009.
3. Coppolino M. L. (2009). Land Snails of Southern Illinois. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA. Last updated 31 January 2009, accessed 25 April 2009.
4. Gerber, Jochen (1996). Revision der Gattung Vallonia Risso 1826 (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Valloniidae). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur - Cismar, Haus der Natur Cismar. Issue 8. Cornell University: Christa Hemmen. ISBN 9783925919220.
5. (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
6. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico): Monographs of The Acad. of Natural Sciences of Phila., No. 3, Vol. II, Part 2. Philadelphia, Pa: Academy of Natural Sciences. 1948. ISBN 1-4223-1778-1.
7. Metcalf, Artie L. (23 March 1984). "Distribution of Land Snails of the San Andres and Organ Mountains, Southern New Mexico". The Southwestern Naturalist. 29 (1): 35–44. JSTOR 3670767.

Further reading

• (in German) Gerber J. (1996). "Revision der Gattung Vallonia Risso, 1826 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Valloniidae)". Schriften zur Malakozoologie 8: 1-227.