Iberus

Iberus
Iberus gualtieranus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicidae
Subfamily:	Helicinae
Tribe:	Allognathini
Genus:	Iberus Montfort, 1810
Type species
Helix gualtierana Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Euiberus Westerlund, 1889 Helix (Iberus) Montfort, 1810 Ibernus Hall, 1867 Transiberus Monterosato, 1894

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

This genus is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.

Recently, Pseudotachea was synonymised with Iberus.[3]

Species and subspecies

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

• Iberus alonensis (A. Férussac, 1821)
• Iberus angustatus (Rossmässler, 1854)
• Iberus calaensis Ahuir, 2013
• Iberus campesinus (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
• Iberus candoni Ahuir, 2021
• Iberus carthaginiensis (Rossmässler, 1853)
• † Iberus delgadoi (Roman, 1907)
• Iberus gualtieranus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Iberus gualtieranus alonensis

Iberus gualtieranus campesinus

Iberus gualtieranus carthaginiensis

Iberus gualtieranus gualterianus

Iberus gualtieranus mariae

Iberus gualtieranus posthumus

Iberus gualtieranus rhodopeplus

• Iberus guiraoanus (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
• Iberus marmoratus (A. Férussac, 1821)

Iberus marmoratus alcarazanus

Iberus marmoratus cobosi

Iberus marmoratus guiraoanus

Iberus marmoratus loxanus

Iberus marmoratus marmoratus

Iberus marmoratus rositai

• Iberus ortizi García San Nicolás, 1957
• Iberus serpentinae Ahuir, 2020

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

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

External links

• Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810] (before 28 May)