Iberus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicinae of the family Helicidae.[2]

Iberus
Iberus gualtieranus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Subfamily: Helicinae
Tribe: Allognathini
Genus: Iberus
Montfort, 1810
Type species
Helix gualtierana Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]

This genus is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.

Recently, Pseudotachea was synonymised with Iberus.[3]

Species and subspecies edit

According to the Fauna Europaea[4][obsolete source] this genus contains the following species and subspecies:

Iberus gualtieranus alonensis
Iberus gualtieranus campesinus
Iberus gualtieranus carthaginiensis
Iberus gualtieranus gualterianus
Iberus gualtieranus mariae
Iberus gualtieranus posthumus
Iberus gualtieranus rhodopeplus
Iberus marmoratus alcarazanus
Iberus marmoratus cobosi
Iberus marmoratus guiraoanus
Iberus marmoratus loxanus
Iberus marmoratus marmoratus
Iberus marmoratus rositai
Species inquirendum
  • Iberus balatonicus Stoliczka, 1862
Species brought into synonymy
  • Iberus circejus Kobelt, 1903: synonym of Marmorana serpentina circeja (Kobelt, 1903) (objective synonym and secondary homonym )
  • Iberus massyloe (Morelet, 1851): synonym of Massylaea massylaea (Morelet, 1851)
  • Iberus melii Kobelt, 1903: synonym of Marmorana serpentina circeja (Kobelt, 1903) (objective junior synonym of Helix (Iberus) melii Kobelt, 1903)

References edit

  1. ^ "Iberus Montfort, 1810". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Iberus Montfort, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996424 on 2021-02-14
  3. ^ Neiber, Marco T.; Chueca, Luis J.; Caro, Amaia; Teixeira, Dinarte; Schlegel, Kevin A.; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín J.; Walther, Frank; Glaubrecht, Matthias; Hausdorf, Bernhard (2021). "Incorporating palaeogeography into ancestral area estimation can explain the disjunct distribution of land snails in Macaronesia and the Balearic Islands (Helicidae: Allognathini)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 162: 107196. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107196.
  4. ^ Fauna Europaea - Genus Iberus
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

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