Carpathica
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade Limacoid clade |
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| Genus: | Carpathica |
Carpathica is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Oxychilidae.
Distribution[edit]
Distribution of Carpathica include south-eastern Europe and Turkey.[2]
Description[edit]
Animal cannot withdraw into the shell.[2] The shell is with 0.5-2 whorls.[2] The last whorl is much inflated.[2]
Reproductive system: Penis is more or less long, usually cylindrical, with appendix (flagellum) at its terminal end.[2] Vas deferens is inserting laterally (subterminally).[2] Retractor connects at appendix.[2] Vagina is usually shorter, surrounded by a vaginal gland in its posterior part.[2] Spermatheca duct is usually short and usually inserting in the zone covered by the vaginal gland.[2] The spermatheca is spherical or ovoid.[2] Oviduct is usually short and sometimes thinner than penis and vagina.[2] Atrium is short.[2]
Carpathica differs from Daudebardia in the presence of an appendix or flagellum at the apical end of the penis; vas deferens inserts subterminally (in Daudebardia terminally).[2]
If Daudebardia transsylvanica is conspecific with Carpathica langi, which is likely if results by Alexandru Vasile Grossu (1983)[3] are tenable (they suggest an uninterrupted gradient between both forms),[2] then there are no differences between Daudebardia and Carpathica, neither in shell not in the anatomy,[2] and the species classified in Carpathica should be placed in Daudebardia.[2]
Species[edit]
Species within the genus Carpathica include:
- Carpathica amisena (Forcart, 1950)[4]
- Carpathica bielawskii Riedel, 1963[4]
- Carpathica boettgeri (Clessin, 1883)[4]
- Carpathica calophana (Westerlund, 1881)[4] – type species
- Carpathica cretica (Forcart, 1950)[4]
- Carpathica denticulata Grossu, 1969[4]
- Carpathica insularis Riedel, 1988[4]
- Carpathica langi (Pfeiffer, 1846)[4]
- Carpathica stussineri (Wagner, 1895)[4]
- Carpathica wirthi Forcart, 1971[4]
References[edit]
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[2]
- ^ Wagner A. J. (1895). "Die Arten des Genus Daudebardia Hartmann in Europa und Westasien. Eine kritische Studie." Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe 62: 609-626, Taf. I-V [= 1-5]. Wien.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Genus summary for Carpathica". AnimalBase, last modified 13 January 2009, accessed 4 September 2010.
- ^ Grossu A. V. (1983). Gastropoda Romaniae 4. Ordo Stylommatophora. Suprafam.: Arionacea, Zonitacea, Ariophantacea şi Helicacea. pp. 1–564. București. (Editura Litera).
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Species in genus Carpathica". [n=10] AnimalBase, accessed 4 September 2010.