Gonospira Explained

Gonospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Orthogibbinae of the family Streptaxidae.^[1]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Gonospira include:

• Mauritius and Rodrigues
• Réunion^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Gonospira include:

• Gonospira adamsiana (G.Nevill & H. Nevill, 1871)
• Gonospira bacilla (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Gonospira barclayi (H. Adams, 1868)
• Gonospira bourguignati(Deshayes, 1863)^[3]
• Gonospira brevis (Morelet, 1867)
• Gonospira callifera (Morelet, 1860)
• Gonospira chloris Crosse, 1873
• Gonospira cylindrella (H. Adams, 1868)^[4]
• Gonospira deshayesi (H. Adams, 1868)^[5]
• Gonospira dupontiana Nevill, 1870^[6]
• Gonospira funiculus (Valenciennes in Pfeiffer, 1842)^[7]
• Gonospira holostoma Morelet, 1875^[8]
• Gonospira larreyi Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
• Gonospira madgei Kennard, 1943^[9]
• Gonospira majuscula (Morelet, 1878)
• Gonospira mauritiana (Morelet, 1860)
• Gonospira metableta Crosse, 1874
• Gonospira modiola (Férussac, 1821)
• Gonospira mondraini (H. Adams, 1868)
• † Gonospira nevilli (H. Adams, 1867)^[10]
• Gonospira palanga (Lesson, 1831)
• Gonospira producta (H. Adams, 1868)
• Gonospira rodriguezensis Crosse, 1873
• Gonospira striaticosta Morelet, 1866^[11]
• Gonospira teres (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)^[12]
• Gonospira testudiae Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
• Gonospira turgidula(Deshayes, 1863)^[13]
• Gonospira uvula Deshayes, 1863^[14]
• Gonospira versipolis (Deshayes, 1851)
• Gonospira viaderi (Madge, 1938)

External links

• Germain, L. (1919). Contributions à la faune malacologique de l'Afrique Équatoriale. LVII. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie. 25 (4) : 258-265. Paris

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gonospira Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996789 on 2021-01-02
2. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. .
3. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira bourguignati . 1996 . e.T9385A12982348 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9385A12982348.en . 16 November 2021.
4. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira cylindrella . 1996 . e.T9386A12982395 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9386A12982395.en . 16 November 2021.
5. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira deshayesi . 1996 . e.T9387A12982443 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9387A12982443.en . 16 November 2021.
6. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira duponti . 1996 . e.T9388A12982491 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9388A12982491.en . 16 November 2021.
7. Mollusc Specialist Group . 1996 . Gonospira funicula . 1996 . e.T9389A12982539 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9389A12982539.en . 16 November 2021.
8. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira holostoma . 1996 . e.T9393A12982727 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9393A12982727.en . 16 November 2021.
9. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira madgei . 1996 . e.T9394A12982758 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9394A12982758.en . 16 November 2021.
10. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira nevilli . 1996 . e.T9392A12982682 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9392A12982682.en . 16 November 2021.
11. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira striaticostus . 1996 . e.T9395A12982789 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9395A12982789.en . 16 November 2021.
12. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira teres . 1996 . e.T9396A12982820 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9396A12982820.en . 16 November 2021.
13. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira turgidula . 1996 . e.T9390A12982586 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9390A12982586.en . 16 November 2021.
14. Griffiths, O. . 1996 . Gonospira uvula . 1996 . e.T9391A12982634 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9391A12982634.en . 16 November 2021.