Caucasotachea

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Caucasotachea
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Caucasotachea vindobonensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Tribe: Helicini
Genus: Caucasotachea
C. R. Boettger, 1909
Type species
Helix atrolabiata
Krynicki, 1833 [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Austrotachea Pfeffer, 1930
  • Caucasotachea (Caucasotachea)C. R. Boettger, 1909· accepted, alternate representation

Caucasotachea is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicidae. [2]

Contents

Species

The following species are currently classified in the genus: [3]

Genetics

The haploid number of chromosomes is 25 (C. vindobonensis) [4] or 26 (C. atrolabiata). [5]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helicidae</span> Family of gastropods

Helicidae is a large, diverse family of small to large, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails."

<i>Caucasotachea vindobonensis</i> Species of gastropod

Caucasotachea vindobonensis is a large species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Helicidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helicoidea</span> Superfamily of gastropods

Helicoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.

<i>Ampelita</i> Genus of gastropods

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

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Orthalicidae</span> Family of gastropods

Orthalicidae are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the subfamily Orthalicoidea of the order Stylommatophora.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elonidae</span> Family of gastropods

Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bothriembryontidae</span> Family of gastropods

Bothriembryontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.

Onchidina is a monotypic genus of air-breathing sea slugs, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Onchidiidae. Its sole member is the species Onchidina australis. Uniquely within the Onchidiidae, O. australis lives above the tidal zone in a fully terrestrial habitat.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Simpulopsidae</span> Family of gastropods

Simpulopsidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.

<i>Macularia sylvatica</i> Species of gastropod

Macularia sylvatica is a medium-sized species of air-breathing dextral land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae. It was once seen as a close relative of the grove snail, but does in fact not belong to the genus Cepaea at all.

Microstele is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subfamily Pupillinae of the family Pupillidae.

<i>Aristena rechingeri</i> Species of mollusc

Aristena rechingeri is a species of gastropod belonging to the family Helicidae, it was originally described as Levantina rechingeri.

References

  1. "Genus taxon summary for Caucasotachea". AnimalBase. SUB Göttingen. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  2. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Caucasotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996428 on 2020-08-30
  3. Eike Neubert & Ruud Bank (2006). "Notes on the species of Caucasotachea C. Boettger 1909 and Lindholmia P. Hesse 1919, with annotations to the Helicidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 135 (1): 101–132. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/0003-9284/135/101-13210.1127/arch.moll/0003-9284/135/101-132.
  4. Gill, J. J. B.; Cain, A. J. (1986). "The chromosomes of Cepaea vindobonensis (Pulmonata: Helicidae) and the relationship between this species and the rest of the genus". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 28 (3): 315–320. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1986.tb01760.x.
  5. Bakhtadze, N. G.; Chakvetadze, N. L.; Mumladze, L. J.; Bakhtadze, G. I.; Tskhadaia, E. A. (2016). "Karyological Data of Terrestrial Mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of Georgia" (PDF). Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Ilia State University, Tbilisi). 25: 23–27.