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Species of gastropod
Norelona pyrenaica
Three views of the
shell of Norelona pyrenaica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Genus:
H. Nordsiek, 1986
Species:
N. pyrenaica
Binomial name
Norelona pyrenaica
Synonyms
Helix pyrenaica Draparnaud, 1805
Elona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805)
Drawings of the shell of Norelona pyrenaica
Norelona pyrenaica is a
species of air-breathing
land snail , a
terrestrial
pulmonate
gastropod
mollusk in the family
Elonidae .
Norelona pyrenaica is the
type species of the genus
Norelona .
Shell description
The
shell is narrowly umbilicated, flattened above, thin, pellucid, olivaceous corneous. The shell has 4½
[2]
whorls , that are rather flattened. The
last whorl is not descending. The peristome is acute, reflected, white-lipped.
[3]
The width of the shell is 17–21 mm. The height of the shell is 9–11 mm.
[2]
Anatomy
This species of snail makes and uses
love darts .
[4] (
Image of reproductive system .)
Distribution
This species is endemic to the
eastern Pyrenees ,
France .
[5] (
map of distribution ,
map 2 )
It is also known from
Spain since 2007.
[6]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from reference
[3]
^ (in French)
Draparnaud J.-P.-R. 1805. Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Ouvrage posthume. Avec XIII planches . pp. [1-9], j-viij [= 1-8], 1-134, [Pl. 1-13]. Paris, Montpellier. (Plassan, Renaud).
^
a
b (in German) Kerney M.P., Cameron R.A.D. & Jungbluth J.H. 1983. Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Hamburg/Berlin, 384 pp., page 299.
^
a
b
Tryon G. W. 1888.
Manual of Conchology , structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata . volume 4,
page 94 ,
plate 23 figures 13-15.
^ Gittenberger E. 1979. On Elona (Pulmonata, Eloniadae fam. nov.)
Malacologia Volume 18, 1-2 , Sixth European Malacological Congress, Amsterdam,
139 -145.
^ Vialatte A., Guiller A., Bellido A. & Madec L. 2008.
Phylogeography and historical demography of the Lusitanian snail Elona quimperiana reveal survival in unexpected separate glacial refugia .
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:339
doi :
10.1186/1471-2148-8-339 .
^ (in Spanish) Guillén G. & Corbella J. 2007.
Presència de Norelona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805) (Gastropoda: Elonidae) al Massís del Montseny (el Vallès Oriental, Catalunya, Espanya) . Spira 2007, 2(3): 189-190.
Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017