Zebrina

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Zebrina
Zebrina detrita.jpg
An illustration showing both a live snail and a shell of Zebrina detrita
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Enidae
Subfamily: Eninae
Tribe: Chondrulini
Genus: Zebrina
Held, 1837 [1]
Synonyms
  • Buliminus (Zebrina)Held, 1838
  • Buliminus (Zebrinus)Westerlund, 1887 (unjustified emendation)
  • Zebrina (Zebrina)Held, 1838 · alternate representation
  • ZebrinusWesterlund, 1887

Zebrina is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Enidae. [2]

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Description

The solid shell is rimately perforated, oblong-conic or fusiformly cylindrical. The apex is horny and rather obtuse. The body whorl is shorter than the spire. The small aperture is obliquely oval. The peristome is straight, labiate within and dentate. The right margin is rather expanded. The columellar margin is reflexed and patulous. [3]

Species

Species in the genus Zebrina include:

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Held F. (1838). "Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns". (Fortsetzung.). Isis1837(12): 902-921. Leipzig.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zebrina Held, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996239 on 2023-11-02
  3. Tryon (1882) Structural and systematic conchology vol. I