Norelona pyrenaica

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Norelona pyrenaica
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Three views of the shell of Norelona pyrenaica
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Elonidae
Genus: Norelona
H. Nordsiek, 1986
Species:
N. pyrenaica
Binomial name
Norelona pyrenaica
(Draparnaud, 1805) [1]
Synonyms

Helix pyrenaica Draparnaud, 1805
Elona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805)

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Drawings of the shell of Norelona pyrenaica Norelona pyrenaica shell.jpg
Drawings of the shell of Norelona pyrenaica

Norelona pyrenaica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Elonidae.

Norelona pyrenaica is the type species of the genus Norelona .

Shell description

The shell is narrowly umbilicated, flattened above, thin, pellucid, olivaceous corneous. The shell has 4½ [2] whorls, that are rather flattened. The last whorl is not descending. The peristome is acute, reflected, white-lipped. [3]

The width of the shell is 17–21 mm. The height of the shell is 9–11 mm. [2]

Anatomy

This species of snail makes and uses love darts. [4] (Image of reproductive system.)

Distribution

This species is endemic to the eastern Pyrenees, France. [5] (map of distribution, map 2)

It is also known from Spain since 2007. [6]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference [3]

  1. ↑ (in French) Draparnaud J.-P.-R. 1805. Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Ouvrage posthume. Avec XIII planches. pp. [1-9], j-viij [= 1-8], 1-134, [Pl. 1-13]. Paris, Montpellier. (Plassan, Renaud).
  2. 1 2 (in German) Kerney M.P., Cameron R.A.D. & Jungbluth J.H. 1983. Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Hamburg/Berlin, 384 pp., page 299.
  3. 1 2 Tryon G. W. 1888. Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. volume 4, page 94, plate 23 figures 13-15.
  4. ↑ Gittenberger E. 1979. On Elona (Pulmonata, Eloniadae fam. nov.) Malacologia Volume 18, 1-2, Sixth European Malacological Congress, Amsterdam, 139-145.
  5. ↑ Vialatte A., Guiller A., Bellido A. & Madec L. 2008. Phylogeography and historical demography of the Lusitanian snail Elona quimperiana reveal survival in unexpected separate glacial refugia. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:339 doi : 10.1186/1471-2148-8-339 .
  6. ↑ (in Spanish) Guillén G. & Corbella J. 2007. Presència de Norelona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805) (Gastropoda: Elonidae) al Massís del Montseny (el Vallès Oriental, Catalunya, Espanya). Spira 2007, 2(3): 189-190.
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