Cepaea
- For the plant genus, see its synonym Sedum.
| Cepaea | |
|---|---|
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| White-lipped snail Cepaea hortensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Genus: | Cepaea Held, 1838[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix nemoralis Linnaeus, 1758[2] | |
Cepaea is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae. The shells of species within this genus are often brightly colored and patterned with stripes.[3] Species from this genus, in particular the common and widespread C. nemoralis and C. hortensis, have been model species for early studies of genetics and natural selection.[4] They occur in Europe, although introduced populations occur elsewhere in the world.[2]
Like many Helicidae, this genus of snails create and use love darts.[3]
Species
Four species are currently classified in the genus Cepaea.[2]
A comparison between Cepaea hortensis (left) and Cepaea vindobonensis (right)
However, molecular phylogenetic studies suggest that the latter two should be placed in unrelated genera:[5]
- Cepaea hortensis (O. F. Müller, 1774)
- Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cepaea sylvatica (Drapanaud, 1801)
- Cepaea vindobonensis (Férussac, 1821)
References
- ↑ Held, F. (1838). "Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns. (Fortsetzung)". Isis (Leipzig) 1837 (12): 902–921.
- 1 2 3 "Genus summary for Cepaea". AnimalBase. 15 August 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- 1 2 Robert Nordsieck. "Banded Snails (Cepaea Held 1838)". The Living World of Molluscs. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ↑ Jones JS, Heith BH, Ralwings P (1977). "Polymorphism in Cepaea: a problem with too many solutions?". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 8: 109–143. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.08.110177.000545.
- ↑ Neiber MT, Hausdorf B (2015). "Molecular phylogeny reveals the polyphyly of the snail genus Cepaea (Gastropoda: Helicidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 93: 143–149. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.07.022.
Further reading
- Yamazaki N., Ueshima R., Terrett J. A., Yokobori S., Kaifu M., Segawa R., Kobayashi T., Numachi K., Ueda T., Nishikawa K., Watanabe K. & Thomas R. H. 1997. Evolution of pulmonate gastropod mitochondrial genomes: comparisons of complete gene organizations of Euhadra, Cepaea and Albinaria and implications of unusual tRNA secondary structures. Genetics 145: 749–758.
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