Bertia (gastropod)

Bertia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Trochomorphoidea
Family:	Dyakiidae
Genus:	Bertia Ancey, 1887

Bertia ^[1] is a genus of air-breathing Asian land snails: they are pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Dyakiidae.

Distribution and conservation status

Bertia sp. in Mulu National Park, Sarawak

Bertia spp. have been recorded from the tropical forests of Borneo and Indo-China: all with very local distributions. The species listed below also all appear to be endangered, primarily due to habitat loss but exacerbated by over-collecting.

Species

The World Register of Marine Species lists: ^[2]

• Bertia cambojiensis (Reeve, 1860)
• Bertia pergrandis (E.A. Smith, 1893)
• Bertia setzeri Thach, 2015 ^[3]

Note: Bertia brookei(Adams & Reeve, 1848) is a synonym of Exrhysota brookei(Adams & Reeve, 1848) ^[4] (Chronidae).

References

1. Ancey C. M. F. (1887). "Description of New Genera or Subgenera of Helicidae". Conch. Exchange. 1: 53.
2. Bouchet, Philippe (2019). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Bertia Ancey, 1887". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species.
3. Nguyen, CaoThai (2010). "Bertia setzeri, a New Species of Land Snail from Vietnam (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Dyakiidae". The Festivus. 47 (4). ISSN   0738-9388 – via Academia.edu.
4. "Bertia brookei (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2 January 2022.

External links

• Media related to Bertia (Gastropod) at Wikimedia Commons