Libera (gastropod)
| Libera | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Endodontidae |
| Genus: | Libera Garrett, 1881[1] |
| Synonyms | |
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Libera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Endodontidae.[2]
Originally the genus Libera was placed within the family Charopidae.[3]
Species
Species in the genus Libera include:[2]
- Libera bursatella (Gould, 1876)
- Libera bursatella bursatella (Gould, 1876)
- Libera bursatella orofenensis Solem, 1976
- Libera cookeana Solem, 1976
- Libera dubiosa (Ancey, 1889)
- Libera fratercula (Pease, 1867)
- Libera fratercula fratercula (Pease, 1867)
- Libera fratercula ratotongensis Solem, 1976
- Libera garrettiana Solem, 1976
- Libera gregaria Garret, 1884
- Libera heynemanni (Pfeiffer, 1862)
- Libera incognata Solem, 1976
- Libera jackquinoti (Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Libera micrasoma Solem, 1976
- Libera recedens Garret, 1884
- Libera retunsa (Pease, 1864)
- Libera spuria (Ancey, 1889)
- Libera streptaxon (Reeve, 1852)
- Libera subcavernula (Tryon, 1887) - extinct, the type species
- Libera tumuloides (Garrett, 1872) - extinct
- Libera umbilicata Solem, 1976
Shell description
The genus Libera was described by Andrew Garrett in 1881. Garrett's type description reads as follows:[3]
| “ | Shell small, widely umbilicated, umbilicus (in adults) strongly constricted so as to form a cavernous or pouch-like cavity; whorls 7-9, costulate or striate, last one angulata or carinate, rarely rounded; aperture subrhomboidal or securiform; peristome thin, simple, straight; parietal region with one or two, and the palate with (rarely without) two or three, internal laminae; columella emarginate and furnished with a spiral fold. | ” |
Life cycle
These snails lay their eggs into the umbilicus of their own shells.[4]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[3]
- ↑ Garrett A. (1881) "The terrestrial mollusca inhabiting Cook's or Hervey Islands" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (2)8(4): 381-411.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Solem A. (29 October 1976) "Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Part I. Family Endodontidae". Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois,
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hedley C. (1 September 1892) "Observations on the Charopdae. Part I." Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7(I): 157-169. Linnean Society of New South Wales. Plate 1-2.
- ↑ Heller J. (2001) Life history strategies. page 419. 413-445. In: Barker G. M. (ed.) The biology of terrestrial molluscs. Cabi Publishing. ISBN 0-85199-318-4.