Libera (gastropod)

Libera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Endodontidae
Genus: Libera
Garrett, 1881[1]
Synonyms
  • Garrettia Cossman, 1910 not Paetel, 1873
  • Garrettina Thiele, 1931

Libera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Endodontidae.[2]

Originally the genus Libera was placed within the family Charopidae.[3]

Species

Species in the genus Libera include:[2]

Shell description

The genus Libera was described by Andrew Garrett in 1881. Garrett's type description reads as follows:[3]

Shell small, widely umbilicated, umbilicus (in adults) strongly constricted so as to form a cavernous or pouch-like cavity; whorls 7-9, costulate or striate, last one angulata or carinate, rarely rounded; aperture subrhomboidal or securiform; peristome thin, simple, straight; parietal region with one or two, and the palate with (rarely without) two or three, internal laminae; columella emarginate and furnished with a spiral fold.

Life cycle

These snails lay their eggs into the umbilicus of their own shells.[4]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[3]

  1. Garrett A. (1881) "The terrestrial mollusca inhabiting Cook's or Hervey Islands" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (2)8(4): 381-411.
  2. 1 2 Solem A. (29 October 1976) "Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Part I. Family Endodontidae". Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois,
  3. 1 2 3 Hedley C. (1 September 1892) "Observations on the Charopdae. Part I." Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7(I): 157-169. Linnean Society of New South Wales. Plate 1-2.
  4. Heller J. (2001) Life history strategies. page 419. 413-445. In: Barker G. M. (ed.) The biology of terrestrial molluscs. Cabi Publishing. ISBN 0-85199-318-4.

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