Albinaria

Albinaria
Apertural view of a shell of Albinaria latelamellaris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Tribe: Medorini
Genus: Albinaria
Vest, 1867[1]
Diversity[2]
116 species

Albinaria is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, called the door snails.[3]

  1. ^ (in German) 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.
  2. ^ "Species in genus Albinaria n=116". AnimalBase, accessed 10 March 2011.
  3. ^ Schilthuizen, M., 1994. Differentiation and Hybridisation in a Polytypic Snail. PhD Thesis, Leiden University.