Biology:Caucasotachea

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Short description: Genus of gastropods

Caucasotachea
Cepaea vindobonensis1.jpg
Caucasotachea vindobonensis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Tribe: Helicini
Genus: Caucasotachea
C. R. Boettger, 1909
Type species
Helix atrolabiata
Krynicki, 1833[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Austrotachea Pfeffer, 1930
  • Cepaea (Octadenia) Schileyko, 1978

Caucasotachea is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicidae.[2]

Species

The following extant species are currently classified in the genus:[3][4]

Several fossil taxa are placed to Caucasotachea:

  • Caucasotachea andrussovi Steklov, 1966
  • Caucasotachea beringi Schütt, 1985
  • Caucasotachea candirensis Schütt, 1985
  • Caucasotachea kubanica Steklov, 1966
  • Caucasotachea phrygomysica (Oppenheim, 1919)

Genetics

The haploid number of chromosomes is 25 (C. vindobonensis)[5] or 26 (C. atrolabiata).[6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Caucasotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909". MolluscaBase. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996428. Retrieved 30 July 2023. 
  2. Eike Neubert; Ruud Bank (2006). "Notes on the species of Caucasotachea C. Boettger 1909 and Lindholmia P. Hesse 1919, with annotations to the Helicidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 135 (1): 101–132. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/0003-9284/135/101-132. 
  3. Neiber, Marco T.; Sagorny, Christina; Sauer, Jan; Walther, Frank; Hausdorf, Bernhard (2016). "Phylogeographic analyses reveal Transpontic long distance dispersal in land snails belonging to the Caucasotachea atrolabiata complex (Gastropoda: Helicidae)" (in en). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 172–183. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.017. PMID 27450782. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1055790316301737. 
  4. Korábek, Ondřej; Juřičková, Lucie; Petrusek, Adam (2021-12-31). "Diversity of Land Snail Tribe Helicini (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae): Where Do We Stand after 20 Years of Sequencing Mitochondrial Markers?" (in en). Diversity 14 (1): 24. doi:10.3390/d14010024. ISSN 1424-2818. 
  5. Gill, J. J. B.; Cain, A. J. (1986). "The chromosomes of Cepaea vindobonensis (Pulmonata: Helicidae) and the relationship between this species and the rest of the genus" (in en). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 28 (3): 315–320. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1986.tb01760.x. https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1986.tb01760.x. 
  6. Bakhtadze, N. G.; Chakvetadze, N. L.; Mumladze, L. J.; Bakhtadze, G. I.; Tskhadaia, E. A. (2016). "Karyological Data of Terrestrial Mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of Georgia". Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Ilia State University, Tbilisi) 25: 23–27. http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/6224/1/XXV%20-%20bakhtadze.pdf. 

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