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

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

Species

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

Several fossil taxa are placed to Caucasotachea:

Genetics

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "Caucasotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909". MolluscaBase. 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)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 103: 172–183. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.017. PMID 27450782.
  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?". 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". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 28 (3): 315–320. 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" (PDF). Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Ilia State University, Tbilisi). 25: 23–27.