Abida | |
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shells of Abida secale | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
Family: | Chondrinidae |
Genus: | Abida Turton, 1831[1] |
Abida is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Chondrinidae.
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This is a European genus. It consists of about 10 species, most of which are restricted to the Pyrenees and Cantabrian mountains in France and Spain.
Only Abida secale and Abida polyodon occur outside this area.
The species in this genus include:[2][3]
The species in this genus all are restricted to calcareous rocks.