Vallonia

Vallonia is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Valloniidae.

For the autonomous region in Belgium, see Wallonia. For the small town in the United States, see Vallonia, Indiana.

Vallonia
A live individual of Vallonia pulchella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
Valloniidae
Genus:
Vallonia

Risso, 1826[1]
Type species
Vallonia rosalia Risso, 1826
Synonyms
  • Amplexis T. Brown, 1827
  • Circinaria H. Beck, 1837
  • † Discus (Nanopatula) Pfeffer, 1930
  • Glaphyra Albers, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Glaphyra Newman, 1840 [Coleoptera])
  • Helix (Circinaria) Beck, 1837 (junior synonym)
  • Helix (Glaphyra) Albers, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Glaphyra Newman, 1840 [Coleoptera])
  • Helix (Vallonia) Risso, 1826
  • † Nanopatula Pfeffer, 1930
  • Pulchelliana Caziot, 1910 (Invalid: junior objective synonym of Circinaria Beck, 1837)
  • † Vallonia (Nanopatula) Pfeffer, 1930 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Vallonia (Planivallonia) Schileyko, 1984 (junior synonym)
  • Vallonia (Vallonia) Risso, 1826
  • Zurama W. Turton, 1831 (Invalid: junior objective synonym of Circinaria Beck, 1837)
A shell of Vallonia pulchella

Vallonia is the type genus of the family Valloniidae.

Species

Species in the genus Vallonia include:[2][3]

References
  1. Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. pp. [1-3], j-vij [= 1-7], 1-439, pl. [1-12]. Paris. (Levrault).
  2. Forsyth R. G. Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia. Family Valloniidae. Accessed 25 April 2009.
  3. Coppolino M. L. (2009). Land Snails of Southern Illinois. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA. Last updated 31 January 2009, accessed 25 April 2009.
  4. Gerber, Jochen (1996). Revision der Gattung Vallonia Risso 1826 (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Valloniidae). Schriften zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur - Cismar, Haus der Natur Cismar. Issue 8. Cornell University: Christa Hemmen. ISBN 9783925919220.
  5. (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  6. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico): Monographs of The Acad. of Natural Sciences of Phila., No. 3, Vol. II, Part 2. Philadelphia, Pa: Academy of Natural Sciences. 1948. ISBN 1-4223-1778-1.
  7. Metcalf, Artie L. (23 March 1984). "Distribution of Land Snails of the San Andres and Organ Mountains, Southern New Mexico". The Southwestern Naturalist. 29 (1): 35–44. JSTOR 3670767.

Further reading
  • (in German) Gerber J. (1996). "Revision der Gattung Vallonia Risso, 1826 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Valloniidae)". Schriften zur Malakozoologie 8: 1-227.


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