Daronia

Daronia
Drawing with two views of a shell of D. spirula
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Neocyclotidae
Genus:	Daronia A. Adams, 1861
Synonyms
Aperostoma (Buckleyia) E. T. Higgins, 1872 (junior synonymy) BuckleyiaE. T. Higgins, 1872 Cyclostrema (Daronia)A. Adams, 1861 Vitrinella (Daronia)A. Adams, 1861

Daronia is a genus of land snails, gastropod molluscs in the family Neocyclotidae. ^[1]

Taxonomy

Six species are accepted within Daronia: ^[1]

• Daronia bicincta (Bartsch & J. P. E. Morrison, 1942)
• Daronia bifasciata (Mousson, 1873)
• Daronia haughti (J. P. E. Morrison, 1955)
• Daronia hoffmeisteri Ladd, 1970 †
• Daronia martinezi (Hidalgo, 1866)
• Daronia spirula (A. Adams, 1850)

Synonyms

• Daronia monterosatoivan Aartsen & Bogi, 1987: synonym of Rugulina monterosatoi (van Aartsen & Bogi, 1987) (original combination)
• † Daronia punctataA. W. Janssen, 1967: synonym of Tjaernoeia exquisita (Jeffreys, 1883)
• Daronia subdisjuncta(H. Adams, 1868): synonym of Tubiola subdisjuncta (H. Adams, 1868)
• Daronia yokoyamaiOyama, 1973: synonym of Circulus choshiensis (T. Habe, 1961)

References

1. "Daronia". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 13 February 2025.

• Breure, A. S. H., Roosen, M. T. & Ablett, J. D. (2022). "Land and freshwater molluscs of mainland Ecuador: an illustrated checklist". Iberus. 40 (1): 37–38.
• Warén A. & Bouchet P. (1988). "A new species of Vanikoridae from the western Mediterranean, with remarks on the Northeast Atlantic species of the family". Bollettino Malacologico. 24 (5–8): 73–100.

External links

• Higgins, E.T. (1872). "Description of new species of shells collected by Mr. Clarence Buckley in Ecuador". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1872: 685–687.
• Adams, A. (1861). "On some new genera and species of Mollusca from the North of China and Japan". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (8): 244.