Gonospira

Gonospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Orthogibbinae of the family Streptaxidae.^[3][2]

Gonospira
A live individual of Gonospira uvula
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Streptaxoidea
Family:	Streptaxidae
Genus:	Gonospira Swainson, 1840^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Ennea (Gonospira) Swainson, 1840 (superseded combination) Orthogibbus Germain, 1919 Orthogibbus (Orthogibbus) Germain, 1919

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Gonospira include:

• Mauritius and Rodrigues^[3]
• Réunion^[3]

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) ^[4]
• Gonospira brevis (Morelet, 1867)
• Gonospira callifera (Morelet, 1860)
• Gonospira chloris Crosse, 1873
• Gonospira cylindrella (H. Adams, 1868) ^[5]
• Gonospira deshayesi (H. Adams, 1868)^[6]
• Gonospira dupontiana Nevill, 1870^[7]
• Gonospira funiculus (Valenciennes in Pfeiffer, 1842)^[8]
• Gonospira holostoma Morelet, 1875^[9]
• Gonospira larreyi Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
• Gonospira madgei Kennard, 1943^[10]
• 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)^[11]
• Gonospira palanga (Lesson, 1831)
• Gonospira producta (H. Adams, 1868)
• Gonospira rodriguezensis Crosse, 1873
• Gonospira striaticosta Morelet, 1866^[12]
• Gonospira teres (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)^[13]
• Gonospira testudiae Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
• Gonospira turgidula(Deshayes, 1863) ^[14]
• Gonospira uvula Deshayes, 1863 ^[15]
• Gonospira versipolis (Deshayes, 1851)
• Gonospira viaderi (Madge, 1938)

References

1. Swainson W. J. (1840). Treat. Malacol. 167, 333.
2. 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
3. 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. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
4. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira bourguignati". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9385A12982348. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9385A12982348.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
5. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira cylindrella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9386A12982395. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9386A12982395.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
6. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira deshayesi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9387A12982443. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9387A12982443.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
7. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira duponti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9388A12982491. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9388A12982491.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
8. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Gonospira funicula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9389A12982539. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9389A12982539.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
9. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira holostoma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9393A12982727. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9393A12982727.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
10. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira madgei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9394A12982758. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9394A12982758.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
11. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira nevilli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9392A12982682. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9392A12982682.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
12. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira striaticostus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9395A12982789. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9395A12982789.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
13. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira teres". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9396A12982820. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9396A12982820.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
14. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira turgidula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9390A12982586. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9390A12982586.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
15. Griffiths, O. (1996). "Gonospira uvula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T9391A12982634. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9391A12982634.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

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• 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