Abida (gastropod)

Abida
Eight shells of Abida secale scale bar in mm
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Chondrinidae
Genus:	Abida Turton, 1831 [1]

Abida is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Chondrinidae.

Distribution

This is a European genus. It consists of about 10 species, most of which are restricted to the Pyrenees and Cantabrian mountains in France and Spain. Only Abida secale and Abida polyodon occur outside this area.

Species

The species in this genus include: ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Image		Binomial name	Distribution
		Abida attenuata
		Abida bigerrensis
		Abida cylindrica
		Abida gittenbergeri
		Abida occidentalis
		Abida partioti
		Abida polyodon
		Abida pyrenaeria
		Abida secale
		Abida vasconica
		Abida vergniesiana

Habitat

The species in this genus all are restricted to areas with calcareous rocks, i.e. limestone areas.

References

1. Turton W. (1831). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands arranged according to the more modern systems of classification; and described from perfect specimens in the author's cabinet: with coloured plates of every species. pp. i-viii [= 1-8], 1-152, Pl. [1-10]. London. page 101.
2. "Abida Turton 1831". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on October 1, 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
3. "Species in genus Abida". AnimalBase . Retrieved 4 May 2014.
4. Kokshoorn, B. and Gittenberger, E. 2010. Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: New synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Zootaxa 2539: 1-62.

External links

• Media related to Abida at Wikimedia Commons