Zebrina Explained

Zebrina is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Enidae.^[1]

Description

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.^[2]

Species

Species in the genus Zebrina include:

† Zebrina beringi Schütt, 1985
† Zebrina cylindroides Wenz, 1930
Zebrina dardana (R.A. Philippi, 1844)
Zebrina detrita (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Zebrina fasciolata (Olivier, 1801) – type species for genus Zebrina
† Zebrina gumsiana Steklov, 1966
Zebrina spratti (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)

Species brought into synonymy:

Zebrina caesia (O. Boettger, 1885): synonym of Rhabdoena cosensis (Reeve, 1849) (junior subjective synonym)
Zebrina carducha (E. von Martens, 1874): synonym of Iranopsis carduchus (E. von Martens, 1874) (superseded combination)
Zebrina eburnea (L. Pfeiffer, 1842): synonym of Leucomastus eburneus (L. Pfeiffer, 1842) (superseded combination)
Zebrina kindermanni (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) : synonym of Leucomastus kindermanni (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
Zebrina libbahensis (Tomlin, 1910): synonym of Zebrinops libbahensis (Tomlin, 1910)
Zebrina schalfejewi (Gredler, 1898): synonym of Clausiliopsis schalfejewi (Gredler, 1898)
Zebrina varnensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1847): synonym of Leucomastus varnensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) (superseded generic combination)

References

Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017

Notes and References

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
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100489 Tryon (1882) Structural and systematic conchology vol. I