Carychium

Genus of gastropods


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::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = Carichium minimum.jpg | image_caption = Shell of Carychium minimum | taxon = Carychium | authority = O. F. Müller, 1773 | synonyms =

  • Auricella Jurine, 1817
  • Auriculina Moquin-Tandon, 1856
  • Carychium (Carychium) O.F. Müller, 1773· accepted, alternate representation
  • Carychium (Saraphia) Risso, 1826 (junior synonym)
  • Saraphia Risso, 1826

Carychium is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.

Species

species within the genus Carychium include:

References

Literature

  • R. A. Bank, E. Gittenberger: Notes on Azorean and European Carychium species (Gastropoda Basommatophora: Ellobiidae). In: Basteria. 49, Leiden 1985, S. 85–100.
  • A. Jochum: Evolution and diversity of the troglobitic Carychiidae – A morphological and phylogenetic investigation of the terrestrial ellobiiod genera, Carychium and Zospeum. In: The Malacologist. 57, London 2011, S. 16–18. (PDF)
  • F. Strauch: Die Entwicklung der europäischen Vertreter der Gattung Carychium O. F. Müller seit dem Miozän. In: Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 107 (4/6), Frankfurt am Main 1977, S. 149–193.
  • A. M. Weigand, A. Jochum, R. Slapnik, J. Schnitzler, E. Zarza, A. Klussmann-Kolb: Evolution of microgastropods (Ellobioidea, Carychiidae): integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and evolutionary hypotheses. In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13, 2013, S. 18. (biomedcentral.com, PDF; 2,7 MB)
  • A. M. Weigand, M.-C. Goetze, A Jochum: Outdated but established?! Conchologically driven species delineations in microgastropods (Carychiidae, Carychium). In: Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 12, 2012, S. 377–386.
  • J. C. Nekola, M. Barthel: Morphometric analysis of the genus Carychium in the Great Lakes region. In: Journal of Conchology. 37, 2002, S. 515–531.
  • K. Bulman: Shell variability in Carychium tridentatum (Risso, 1826) and its importance for infraspecific taxonomy (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Ellobiidae). In: Malakologische Abhandlungen des Museums für Tierkunde Dresden. 15, 1990, S. 37–50.
  • A. M. Weigand, A. Jochum, R. Slapnik, J. Schnitzler, E. Zarza, A. Klussmann-Kolb: Evolution of microgastropods (Ellobioidea, Carychiidae): integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and evolutionary hypotheses. In: BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13, 2013, S. 18 (biomedcentral.com PDF; 2,7 MB)
  • O. F. Müller: Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. In: Voluminis Imi pars Ima. 1773, S. [1-33], 1–135. Havniæ & Lipsiæ. (Heineck & Faber).

References

Ewa Stworzewicz, Valentin A. Prisyazhnyuk, Marcin Górka: Systematic and palaeoecological study of Miocene terrestrial gastropods from Zwierzyniec (Southern Poland). In: Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae. 83, 2013, S. 179–200. (PDF)

References

  1. [[Otto Friedrich Müller. Müller O. F.]] (1773). ''Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia''. Voluminis Imi pars Ima. pp. [1-33], 1-135. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
  2. Chitty, Edward. Descriptions of Thirty Supposed New Species and Varieties of Land and Fluviatile Shells of Jamaica: With Observations on Some Shells Already Described. RJ de Cordova, printer, 1853.
  3. Benson, W. H. "XXII.—Characters of Diplommatina, a new genus of Terrestrial Mollusks belonging to the family of Carychiadæ, and of a second species contained in it; also of a new species of Carychium inhabiting the Western Himalaya." Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4.21 (1849): 193-195. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03745486009494813?journalCode=tnah08]
  4. O. F. Müller: ''Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia.'' In: ''Volumen alterum.'' 1774, S. I–XXXVI, 1-214, Havniæ/Kopenhagen & Lipsiæ/Leipzig, Heineck & Faber [Online bei Biodiversity Heritage Library] (S. 125).
  5. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Carychium O. F. Müller, 1773. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738075 on 2020-05-01
  6. Freyer, Custos. Ueber neu entdeckte Conchylien aus den Geschlechtern ''Carychium'' und Pterocera:(Aus dem Jännerhefte 1855 der Sitz. Ber. der math. naturw. Classe der k. Acad. der Wiss.(Bd. XV, S. 18.). 1855.
  7. Jochum, Adrienne, et al. "Fulfilling the taxonomic consequence after DNA Barcoding: ''Carychium panamaense'' sp. n.(Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae) from Panama is described using computed tomographic (CT) imaging." ZooKeys 795 (2018): 1. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232243/pdf/zookeys-795-001.pdf (PDF)]
  8. von Möllendorff, Otto Franz. Verzeichniss der auf den Philippinen lebenden Landmollusken. 1898.
  9. Von Moellendorff, O. F. "Neue Landschnecken von Java." Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 29 (1897): 57-72.
  10. Sandberger, Fridolin. Die Land-und Süßwasser-Conchylien der Vorwelt. Text. Kreidel, 1875.
  11. Hauffen, H. "Beitrage zur Grottenkunde Krain’s. Uber ''Carychium carinatum''." Jahresheft des Vereines des krainischen Landes-Museum, Laibach 2 (1858): 96.
  12. Benson, W. H. "XXII.—Characters of Diplommatina, a new genus of Terrestrial Mollusks belonging to the family of Carychiadæ, and of a second species contained in it; also of a new species of ''Carychium'' inhabiting the Western Himalaya." Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4.21 (1849): 193-195. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03745486009494813?needAccess=true]
  13. Jochum, Adrienne, et al. "Three new species of ''Carychium'' OF Müller, 1773 from the Southeastern USA, Belize and Panama are described using computer tomography (CT)(Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae)." ZooKeys 675 (2017): 97.[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5523888/pdf/zookeys-675-097.pdf (PDF)]
  14. D. C. Dourson: ''Four New Land Snail Species from the Southern Appalachian Mountains.'' In: ''Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science.'' 128(1), 2012, S. 1–10. [https://archive.today/20160329193701/http://www.jncas.org/doi/abs/10.7572/2167-5880-128.1.1 (Abstract)]
  15. Ewa Stworzewicz: ''Miocene land snails from Belchatów (Central Poland), III: Carychiinae (Gastropoda; Pulmonata: Ellobiidae).'' In: ''Paläontologische Zeitschrift.'' 73(3/4), Stuttgart 1999, S. 261–276.
  16. Wilhelm Wenz: ''Gastropoda extramarina tertiaria.'' In: Carl Diener (Hrsg.): ''Fossilium catalogus, 1 Animalium.'' 21, Berlin 1923, S. 952–957, 1069-1420. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/125705#page/220/mode/1up (biodiversitylibrary.org)]
  17. G. Truc: ''Nouveaux gastéropodes continentaux du Pliocène terminal de Celleneuve (Hérault, Sud-Est de la France).'' In: ''Documents des laboratoires de géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon.'' 50, 1972, S. 83–91.

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