Vallonia
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For the autonomous region in Belgium, see Wallonia. For the small town in the United States, see Vallonia, Indiana.
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| Vallonia pulchella | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Valloniidae |
| Genus: | Vallonia Risso, 1826[1] |
Vallonia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Valloniidae.
[edit] Species
Species in the genus Vallonia include[2][3]:
- Vallonia allamanica
- Vallonia costata (O. F. Müller, 1774)[4]
- Vallonia cyclophorella Sterki, 1892 - Silky Vallonia
- Vallonia declivis Sterki, 1893 - synonym: Vallonia adela[4]
- Vallonia eiapopeia Gerber, 1996
- Vallonia enniensis (Gredler, 1856)[4]
- Vallonia excentrica Sterki, 1893[4] - Excentric Vallonia
- Vallonia gracilicosta Reinhardt, 1883
- Vallonia parvula Sterki, 1893
- Vallonia perspectiva Sterki, 1893 - Thin lip vallonia
- Vallonia pulchella (O. F. Müller, 1774)[4] - Lovely Vallonia - type species
- Vallonia suevica Geyer, 1908
- Vallonia tenuilabris (Braun, 1843)
[edit] References
- ^ 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).
- ^ Forsyth R. G. Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia. Family Valloniidae. Accessed 25 April 2009.
- ^ Coppolino M. L. (2009). Land Snails of Southern Illinois. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA. Last updated 31 January 2009, accessed 25 April 2009.
- ^ a b c d e (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.
[edit] Further reading
- (German) Gerber J. (1996). "Revision der Gattung Vallonia Risso 1826 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Valloniidae)". Schriften zur Malakozoologie 8: 1-227.
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