Napaeus

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

Napaeus
Napaeus obesatus (Webb & Berthelot, 1833)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Enoidea
Family:
Enidae
Subfamily:
Eninae
Tribe:
Enini
Genus:
Napaeus

Albers, 1850[1]
Diversity[2]
65 extant + 2 extinct + some undescribed species

Distribution

Napaeus is endemic to the Macaronesia ecoregion: Azores and Canary Islands.[3][4]

Species

There are two recognized subgenera, Napaeus Albers, 1850 and Napaeinus Hesse, 1933.[2]

Species within the genus Napaeus include 18 species on the Tenerife,[3] 17 species[3] on the La Gomera and others. Additionally, 11 new species from the Canary Islands were described in 2011.[2][5][6]

  • Napaeus alucensis Santana & Yanes, 2011- on La Gomera[5]
  • Napaeus aringaensis Yanes et al., 2011[2]
  • Napaeus baeticatus (Webb & Berthelot, 1833) - type species[5]
  • Napaeus barquini Alonso & Ibáñez, 2006[7]
  • Napaeus delicatus Alonso, Yanes & Ibáñez, 2011[6]
  • Napaeus gomerensis G. A. Holyoak & D. T. Holyoak, 2011 - on La Gomera[5]
  • Napaeus grohi Yanes et al., 2011[2]
  • Napaeus isletae Groh & Ibanez, 1992
  • Napaeus josei Yanes et al., 2011[2]
  • Napaeus lajaensis Castillo et al., 2006[8]
  • Napaeus minimus Holyoak & Holyoak, 2011[6]
  • Napaeus moroi Martín, Alonso & Ibáñez, 2011 - La Gomera[5]
  • Napaeus nanodes Shuttleworth, 1852
  • Napaeus pygmaeus Ibanez & Alonso, 1993
  • Napaeus torilensis Artiles & Deniz, 2011 - on La Gomera[5]
  • Napaeus validoi Yanes et al., 2011[2]
  • Napaeus venegueraensis Yanes et al., 2011[2]

References
  1. Albers J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. pp. 1-262, Taf. 1-59. Berlin. (Enslin). page 179.
  2. Yanes Y., Santana J., Artiles M., Deniz F., Martin J., Alonso M. R. & Ibanez M. (2011). "Five new Napaeus species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae) from Gran Canaria and El Hierro (Canary Islands)." Zootaxa 2901: 35-51. abstract.
  3. Allgaier C. (2007). "Active Camouflage with Lichens in a Terrestrial Snail, Napaeus (N.) barquini Alonso and Ibáñez, 2006 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Enidae)". Zoological Science 24(9): 869-876. doi:10.2108/zsj.24.869.
  4. Tuebingen University (2007, October 31). "Snails As Clever Builders: Active Camouflage In A Snail". ScienceDaily. Accessed October 8, 2010.
  5. Yanes Y., Martín J., Santana J., Holyoak G. A., Holyoak D. T., Artiles M., Deniz F. et al. & Ibáñez M. (2011). "Four new Napaeus species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae) from La Gomera (Canary Islands)". Journal of Conchology 40(4): 393-407. abstract.
  6. Holyoak G. A., Holyoak D. T., Yanes Y., Alonso M. R., Ibanez M. (2011). "Two new Napaeus species from La Gomera and La Palma (Canary Islands) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae) ". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 140(1): 37-48. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/l869-0963/l40/037.
  7. Alonso M. R., Goodacre S. L., Emerson B. C., Ibáñez M., Hutterer R. & Groh K. (2006). "Canarian land snail diversity: conflict between anatomical and molecular data on the phylogenetic placement of five new species of Napaeus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Enidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89: 169-187. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00670.x.
  8. Castillo C., Yanes Y., Alonso M. R. & Ibáñez M. (2006). "Napaeus lajaensis sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae) from a Quaternary Aeolian deposit of Northeast Tenerife, Canary Islands". Zootaxa 1307: 41-54.

Further reading
  • Alonso M. R., Henríquez F. & Ibáñez M. (1995). "Revision of the species group Napaeus variatus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Buliminidae) from the Canary Islands, with description of five new species". Zool Scr 24: 303-320.
  • Yanes Y., Martín J., Moro L., Alonso M. R. & Ibáñez M. (2009). "On the relationships of the genus Napaeus (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae), with the description of four new species from the Canary Islands". Journal of Natural History 43(35): 2179-2207.
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