Ayna is a monotypic genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Enidae. The sole species in the genus is Ayna mienisi.[2] It was described as Zebrina (Ramusculus) mienisi. The genus Ramusculus however is a monotypic genus only distantly related to Ayna. The closest relative of Ayna is probably Clausilioides.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Genus: | Ayna Páll-Gergely, 2009[1]
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| Species: | A. mienisi
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| Ayna mienisi (Gittenberger, 1986)
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A. mienisi is a chirally enantiomorphic species. This means that some specimens have sinistral (left-coiled), others dextral (right-coiled) shells. The sinistral and dextral specimens form "clear" populations but can by found sympatrically as well. The sinistral specimens were described as a species (Ramusculus laevitortus Schütt, 1995) differs from the dextral Ramusculus mienisi. The species inhabits a relatively small area in Erzurum Province, northeastern Turkey.
References edit
- ^ Páll-Gergely (2009). "Revision of the Turkish Ramusculus taxa with description of Ayna gen. nov. (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Enidae)". Journal of Conchology 40(1): 73–77.
- ^ Gittenberger, Edmund (1986). "Two new species of Enidae (Mollusca Gastropoda: Pupillacea) from Turkey". Zoologische Mededelingen. 60 (13): 209–216.
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