Albinaria ariadne

Albinaria ariadne is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.[3] The species is endemic to Crete.[1]

Albinaria ariadne
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Family:
Clausiliidae
Genus:
Albinaria
Species:
A. ariadne
Binomial name
Albinaria ariadne
Schilthuizen & Gittenberger, 1991[2]

It has been stated that further research is necessary whether Albinaria ariadne is an independent species. Based on shell characters it seems closely related to Albinaria idaea, except that Albinaria ariadne has a weak basalis.[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in Greece. It is only known from a local occurrence near Orthés (S of Perama) in northern central Crete.[4][5]

References
  1. Triantis, K (2017)."Albinaria ariadne".. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017.3: e.T171517A85579609. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  2. Schilthuizen, M. & Gittenberger, E. 1991. A new Albinaria species from central Crete (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Clausiliidae). - Basteria 55 (4/6): 111-114. Leiden.
  3. "Taxonomy Browser". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. US: National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  4. Welter-Schultes, F. 2010. Revision of the genus Albinaria in Crete (Greece): presence of geographically variable monotypic and polytypic species (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology, 139(2), 143-245.
  5. Kittel, K., Hirschfelder, H. J. 2018. The Genus Albinaria VEST 1867 in Crete. Acta Conchyliorum. Volume: 17. Club Conchylia. Öhringen, Germany.


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