Gonospira

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title: "Gonospira" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["gonospira", "streptaxidae", "taxonomy-articles-created-by-polbot"] description: "Genus of gastropods" topic_path: "general/gonospira" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonospira" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = Gonospira uvula Reunion 0408.jpg | image_caption = Gonospira uvula | display_parents= 3 | taxon = Gonospira | authority = Swainson, 1840 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms =

• Ennea (Gonospira) Swainson, 1840 (superseded combination)
• Orthogibbus Germain, 1919
• Orthogibbus (Orthogibbus) Germain, 1919

Gonospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Orthogibbinae of the family Streptaxidae.

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Gonospira include:

• Mauritius and Rodrigues
• Réunion

Species

Species within the genus Gonospira include:

• Gonospira adamsiana (G.Nevill & H. Nevill, 1871)
• Gonospira bacilla (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Gonospira barclayi (H. Adams, 1868)
• Gonospira bourguignati(Deshayes, 1863)
• Gonospira brevis (Morelet, 1867)
• Gonospira callifera (Morelet, 1860)
• Gonospira chloris Crosse, 1873
• Gonospira cylindrella (H. Adams, 1868)
• Gonospira deshayesi (H. Adams, 1868)
• Gonospira dupontiana Nevill, 1870
• Gonospira funiculus (Valenciennes in Pfeiffer, 1842)
• Gonospira holostoma Morelet, 1875
• Gonospira larreyi Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
• Gonospira madgei Kennard, 1943
• Gonospira majuscula (Morelet, 1878)
• Gonospira mauritiana (Morelet, 1860)
• Gonospira metableta Crosse, 1874
• Gonospira modiola (Férussac, 1821)
• Gonospira mondraini (H. Adams, 1868)
• † Gonospira nevilli (H. Adams, 1867)
• Gonospira palanga (Lesson, 1831)
• Gonospira producta (H. Adams, 1868)
• Gonospira rodriguezensis Crosse, 1873
• Gonospira striaticosta Morelet, 1866
• Gonospira teres (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
• Gonospira testudiae Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994
• Gonospira turgidula(Deshayes, 1863)
• Gonospira uvula Deshayes, 1863
• Gonospira versipolis (Deshayes, 1851)
• Gonospira viaderi (Madge, 1938)

References

References

1. [[William Swainson. Swainson W.]] (1840). ''Treat. Malacol.'' 167, 333.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gonospira Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996789 on 2021-01-02
3. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". ''[[Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society]]'' '''160''': 1-16. {{doi. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
4. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira bourguignati''".
5. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira cylindrella''".
6. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira deshayesi''".
7. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira duponti''".
8. Mollusc Specialist Group. (1996). "''Gonospira funicula''".
9. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira holostoma''".
10. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira madgei''".
11. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira nevilli''".
12. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira striaticostus''".
13. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira teres''".
14. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira turgidula''".
15. Griffiths, O.. (1996). "''Gonospira uvula''".

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