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Albinaria

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| image = Albinaria latelamellaris shell.jpg

| image_caption = Apertural view of a shell of Albinaria latelamellaris

| taxon = Albinaria

| authority = Vest, 1867{{in lang|de}} Vest, W. von 1867. Ueber den Schliessapparat der Clausilien. Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften in Hermannstadt 18 (1, 7, 8): 5-18, 161-174, 188-196.

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| diversity_ref = [http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/species?taxongenus=468 "Species in genus Albinaria n=116"]. AnimalBase, accessed 10 March 2011.

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116 species

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Albinaria is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, called the door snails.Schilthuizen, M., 1994. Differentiation and Hybridisation in a Polytypic Snail. PhD Thesis, Leiden University.

Ecology and Life Cycle

These species of snails live on limestone rocks, where they feed on algae and lichen. They are known to be active during the rainy seasons, that is, in Mediterranean lowlands, from November to April. Eggs are laid shortly after the beginning of the wet season. It takes two to three wet seasons for development from a juvenile to a fully grown shell . During the intermittent dry seasons, both young and adult snails, aestivate ("the warm weather equivalent of hibernation"Gould, S.J., 1985. The Flamingo's Smile; Reflections in Natural History. Norton, New York) on the rocks or in crevices inside the rocks. For aestivation, aggregates are often formed, sometimes reaching sizes of many hundreds of individuals. During the last dry season prior to sexual maturation, the subadult snail (the shell of which is already fully developed, albeit thinner than that of an adult) increases the size of its genital organs. Copulation then takes place during the first weeks of autumn rains. Population densities can sometimes be very high, in spite of heavy predation by beetle larvae of the genus Drilus. These insects attack the snails during their aestivation, perforating the shell and eating the snail inside.[http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0100366 Baalbergen, E., R. Helwerda, R. Schelfhorst, R.F.Castillo Cajas, C.H.M. van Moorsel, R. Kundrata, F.W. Welter-Schultes, S. Giokas & M. Schilthuizen, 2014. Predator-prey interactions between shell-boring beetle larvae and rock-dwelling land snails. PLoS ONE, 9(6): e100366]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Albinaria includes:

  • southern Albania
  • Greece
  • Cyprus
  • western and southern Turkey
  • Lebanon

Species

Species in this genus include 111 species:[http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/species?taxongenus=468 Species in genus Albinaria ]. AnimalBase, accessed 21 September 2009.

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References

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Further reading

  • {{Cite journal | last1 = De Weerd | first1 = D. R. U. T. | last2 = Gittenberger | first2 = E. | doi = 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00154.x | title = Towards a monophyletic genus Albinaria (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): The first molecular study into the phylogenetic position of eastern Albinaria species | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume = 143 | issue = 4 | pages = 531 | year = 2005 | doi-access = free }}.
  • Kemperman Th. C. M. (1992). "Genitalia of Albinaria of the Ionian islands Kephallinia and Ithaka". In: Kemperman Th. C. M. Systematics and evolutionary history of the Albinaria species from the Ionian islands of Kephallinia and Ithaka (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Clausiliidae): 41–80. Leiden, thesis Leiden University.
  • Schilthuizen M. & Gittenberger E. (1996). "Allozyme variation in some Cretan Albinaria (Gastropoda): paraphyletic species as natural phenomena". In: Taylor J. D. (ed.) Origin and evolutionary radiation of the Mollusca: 301–311. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • {{Cite journal

| last1 = Yamazaki | first1 = N.

| last2 = Ueshima | first2 = R.

| last3 = Terrett | first3 = J. A.

| last4 = Yokobori | first4 = S.

| last5 = Kaifu | first5 = M.

| last6 = Segawa | first6 = R.

| last7 = Kobayashi | first7 = T.

| last8 = Numachi | first8 = K.

| last9 = Ueda | first9 = T.

| last10 = Nishikawa | first10 = K.

| last11 = Watanabe | first11 = K.

| last12 = Thomas | first12 = R. H.

| title = Evolution of pulmonate gastropod mitochondrial genomes: Comparisons of gene organizations of Euhadra, Cepaea and Albinaria and implications of unusual tRNA secondary structures

| journal = Genetics

| volume = 145

| issue = 3

| pages = 749–758

| year = 1997

| doi = 10.1093/genetics/145.3.749

| pmid = 9055084

| pmc = 1207859

}}

  • {{Cite journal|doi=10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0348:SVIATL>2.0.CO;2|issn=0094-8373|year=2001|volume=27|pages=348–368|title=Spatial variations inAlbinaria terebraland snail morphology in Crete (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae): Constraints for older and younger colonizations?|last1=Welter-Schultes|first1=F. W.|journal=Paleobiology|issue=2|s2cid=85832001 }}.

External links

  • http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~fwelter/research.htm
  • http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=1

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