Vallonia

For the autonomous region in Belgium, see Wallonia. For the small town in the United States, see Vallonia, Indiana.

Vallonia
A live individual of Vallonia pulchella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Valloniidae
Genus:	Vallonia Risso, 1826[1]
Type species
Vallonia rosalia Risso, 1826
Synonyms
Amplexis T. Brown, 1827 Circinaria H. Beck, 1837 † Discus (Nanopatula) Pfeffer, 1930 Helix (Circinaria) Beck, 1837 (junior synonym) Helix (Glaphyra) Albers, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Glaphyra Newman, 1840 [Coleoptera]) Helix (Pulchelliana) Caziot, 1910 (Invalid: junior objective synonym of Circinaria Beck, 1837) Helix (Vallonia) Risso, 1826 Helix (Zurama) W. Turton, 1831 · † Nanopatula Pfeffer, 1930 † Vallonia (Nanopatula) Pfeffer, 1930 · accepted, alternate representation Vallonia (Planivallonia) Schileyko, 1984 (junior synonym) Vallonia (Vallonia) Risso, 1826 Zurama W. Turton, 1831 (Invalid: junior objective synonym of Circinaria Beck, 1837)

A shell of Vallonia pulchella

Vallonia is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Valloniidae.[2]

Vallonia is the type genus of the family Valloniidae.

Species

Species in the genus Vallonia include:[3][4]

• Vallonia asiatica (G. Nevill, 1878)
• † Vallonia berryi Pierce, 1992
• † Vallonia brochoni (Degrange-Touzin, 1892)
• † Vallonia chimaira Gerber, 1996
• Vallonia chinensis K. Suzuki, 1944
• Vallonia costata (O. F. Müller, 1774)[5][6]
• Vallonia costohimala Gerber & Bössneck, 2009
• Vallonia cyclophorella Sterki, 1892 - silky vallonia[5]
• Vallonia declivis Sterki, 1893[5][6]
• Vallonia eiapopeia Gerber, 1996[5]
• Vallonia enniensis (Gredler, 1856)[5][6]
• Vallonia excentrica Sterki, 1893[6] - excentric vallonia[5]
• † Vallonia gigantea Steklov, 1967
• † Vallonia girauxae (Cossmann, 1902)
• Vallonia gracilicosta Reinhardt, 1883[5]
• Vallonia himalaevis Gerber & Bössneck, 2009
• † Vallonia hoppla Gerber, 1996
• Vallonia kamtschatica I. M. Likharev, 1963
• Vallonia kathrinae Gerber & Bössneck, 2009
• † Vallonia kootenayorum Pierce, 2001
• Vallonia ladacensis (G. Nevill, 1878)
• † Vallonia laxa Gerber, 1996
• † Vallonia lepida (Reuss, 1849)
• † Vallonia major Gottschick, 1920
• Vallonia mionecton (O. Boettger, 1889)
• † Vallonia pallaryi Wenz, 1919
• Vallonia parvula Sterki, 1893[5]
• Vallonia patens Reinhardt, 1883
• Vallonia persica Rosen, 1892
• Vallonia perspectiva Sterki, 1893 - thin lip vallonia[5]
• Vallonia peteri Schileyko, 1984
• Vallonia pulchella (O. F. Müller, 1774)[6] - lovely vallonia - type species[5]
• Vallonia pulchellula (Heude, 1882)
• Vallonia ranovi Meng & Gerber, 2008
• † Vallonia sandbergeri (Deshayes, 1863)
• † Vallonia sparnacensis (Deshayes, 1863)
• † Vallonia stworzewiczae Neubauer, 2013
• † Vallonia subcyclophorella (Gottschick, 1911)
• Vallonia suevica Geyer, 1908[5][7]
• Vallonia tenuilabris (Braun, 1843)[5][7][8]
• Vallonia terraenovae Gerber, 1996
• Vallonia tokunagai K. Suzuki, 1944
• † Vallonia tumida Stworzewicz, 2007
• Vallonia zaru Almuhambetova, 1979
• † Vallonia zykini Prysiazhniuk, 2016 †

Synonyms

• Vallonia allamanica Geyer, 1908:[5] synonym of Vallonia suevica Geyer, 1908 (junior synonym)
• Vallonia albula Sterki, 1893: synonym of Vallonia gracilicosta Reinhardt, 1883
• Vallonia americana Ancey, 1893: synonym of Vallonia parvula Sterki, 1893 (junior subjective synonym)
• Vallonia astoma O. Boettger, 1909: synonym of Gittenbergia sororcula (Benoit, 1859) (junior synonym)
• Vallonia costataeformis Jooss, 1912: synonym of Vallonia costata (O. F. Müller, 1774) (junior subjective synonym)
• Vallonia jurassica Geyer, 1908: synonym of Vallonia costata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Vallonia ladakensis (G. Nevill, 1878): synonym of Vallonia ladacensis (G. Nevill, 1878) (unjustified emendation of Vallonia ladacensis (Nevill, 1878))
• Vallonia miserrima Gude, 1907: synonym of Vallonia ladacensis (G. Nevill, 1878) (junior synonym)
• Vallonia miserrina Gude, 1907: synonym of Vallonia miserrima Gude, 1907: synonym of Vallonia ladacensis (G. Nevill, 1878) (incorrect subsequent spelling)
• † Vallonia moguntiaca Wenz, 1915: synonym of † Vallonia lepida (Reuss, 1849) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
• Vallonia rosalia Risso, 1826: synonym of Vallonia costata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Vallonia sonorana Pilsbry, 1915: synonym of Vallonia gracilicosta Reinhardt, 1883
• † Vallonia subpulchella (F. Sandberger, 1872): synonym of † Vallonia lepida (Reuss, 1849) (junior subjective synonym)
• Vallonia tenera (Reinhardt, 1877): synonym of Vallonia pulchellula (Heude, 1882) (junior synonym)

References

1. Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. pp. [1-3], j-vij [= 1-7], 1-439, pl. [1-12]. Paris. (Levrault).
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vallonia Risso, 1826. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=593140 on 2023-01-21
3. Forsyth R. G. Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia. Family Valloniidae. Accessed 25 April 2009.
4. Coppolino M. L. (2009). Land Snails of Southern Illinois. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA. Last updated 31 January 2009, accessed 25 April 2009.
5. Gerber, Jochen (1996). Revision der Gattung Vallonia Risso 1826 (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Valloniidae). Vol. Issue 8. Cornell University: Christa Hemmen. ISBN 9783925919220. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); |work= ignored (help)
6. (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
7. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico): Monographs of The Acad. of Natural Sciences of Phila., No. 3, Vol. II, Part 2. Philadelphia, Pa: Academy of Natural Sciences. 1948. ISBN 1-4223-1778-1.
8. Metcalf, Artie L. (23 March 1984). "Distribution of Land Snails of the San Andres and Organ Mountains, Southern New Mexico". The Southwestern Naturalist. 29 (1): 35–44. Bibcode:1984SWNat..29...35M. doi:10.2307/3670767. JSTOR 3670767.

• Schileyko, A. A. (1984). Nazemnye molljuski podotrjada Pupillina fauny SSSR (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Geophila). In:. Fauna SSSR, Molljuski. III, 3
• Pfeffer, G. (1930). Zur Kenntnis tertiärer Landschnecken. Geologisch-Paläontologische Abhandlungen, neue Folge. 17(3): 153-380, pl. 15-17.
• Schileyko, A. A. (1998). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 1. Achatinellidae, Amastridae, Orculidae, Strobilopsidae, Spelaeodiscidae, Valloniidae, Cochlicopidae, Pupillidae, Chondrinidae, Pyramidellidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 1-127. Moskva

Further reading

• (in German) Gerber J. (1996). "Revision der Gattung Vallonia Risso, 1826 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Valloniidae)". Schriften zur Malakozoologie 8: 1-227.

External links

• Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls.
• Turton, W. (1831). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, arranged according to the more modern system of classification; and described from perfect specimens in the author's cabinet: with coloured plates of every species, viii + 152 + 16 pp.): Index of English names), 9 unnumbered plates. London (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green).
• Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp
• Beck, H. H. (1838). Species novarum in indice molluscorum praesentis aevi musei Principis Christiani Frederici ab autore propositarum characteres breves. Hafniae (= København): 1-8.
• Caziot, E. (1910). Étude sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la Principauté de Monaco et du Département des Alpes-Maritimes. 559