Mandarina

Mandarina is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae.[1]

Mandarina
apertural view of the shell of Mandarina luhuana
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:
Bradybaenidae[1]
Genus:
Mandarina

Diversity[3]
17 species, 5 of them are extinct

Mandarina have been traditionally placed within Camaenidae.[3] Phylogenic study by Chiba (1999)[4] have found, that Mandarina is closely related to Euhadra (family Bradybaenidae) and that Mandarina have probably evolved from Euhadra.[3]

Distribution

The genus Mandarina is endemic to Ogasawara Islands.[3]

Description

The shell is solid.[3] The width of the shell is 15–80 mm.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Mandarina include:

Ecology

Mandarina live in various habitats including arboreal, semi-arboreal, ground habitats, wet habitats and dry habitats.[3]

gollark: Yep, just like pi is basically 3 is basically e.
gollark: Also plane.
gollark: Plane and plain.
gollark: Well. PHYSICS\™.
gollark: MATHS™

References
  1. Davison, A.; Chiba, S. (2006). "Labile ecotypes accompany rapid cladogenesis in an adaptive radiation of Mandarina (Bradybaenidae) land snails". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 88 (2): 269. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00624.x.
  2. Pilsbry H. A. (1894). In Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. Manual of Conchology (2)9: 214.
  3. Chiba, S. (2010). "Species Diversity and Conservation of Mandarina, an Endemic Land Snail of the Ogasawara Islands". Restoring the Oceanic Island Ecosystem. pp. 117–125. doi:10.1007/978-4-431-53859-2_18. ISBN 978-4-431-53858-5. PDF (2010 reprint) Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Chiba S. (1999). "Accelerated evolution of land snails Mandarina in the oceanic Bonin Islands: evidence from mitochondrial DNA sequences". Evolution 53(2): 460-471. JSTOR.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.