Albinaria janicollis

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Albinaria janicollis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Genus: Albinaria
Species:
A. janicollis
Binomial name
Albinaria janicollis
Schultes & Wiese, 1991 [2]

Albinaria janicollis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. [1]

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Distribution

This species occurs in Greece. It is endemic to Crete, where it occurs only on the Gianysada Island within the Islands of Dionysades. [2] [3]

Description

This clausilid species is characterized by a small, prominently ribbed shell. It is not bulbously shaped but with a straight outline. At the penultimate whorl it is detached and protruding with a small aperture. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Triantis, K (2017)."Albinaria janicollis".. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017.3: e.T171423A85578972. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
  2. 1 2 3 Schultes, W. & Wiese, V. 1991. Die Gattung Albinaria auf Kreta: VII. Die Landschneckenfauna der Dionisádes-Inseln. Schriften zur Malakozoologie, 4: 76-93, Cismar/Ostholstein.
  3. 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.