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Zebrina

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Zebrina
An illustration showing both a live snail and a shell of Zebrina detrita
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
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
  • Zebrinus Westerlund, 1887

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

Description

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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

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Species in the genus Zebrina include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

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  1. ^ Held F. (1838). "Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns". (Fortsetzung.). Isis 1837(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 2 November 2023
  3. ^ Tryon (1882) Structural and systematic conchology vol. I
  • Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017