Zebrina

This article is about the snail genus. For synonymous genus of plants, see Tradescantia. For the sailing barge, see Zebrina (ship).

Zebrina
An illustration showing both a live snail and a shell of Zebrina detrita
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Enidae
Subfamily:	Eninae
Tribe:	Chondrulini
Genus:	Zebrina Held, 1837[1]
Synonyms
Buliminus (Zebrina) Held, 1838 Buliminus (Zebrinus) Westerlund, 1887 (unjustified emendation) Zebrina (Zebrina) Held, 1838 · alternate representation Zebrinus Westerlund, 1887

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

Description

The solid shell is rimately perforated, oblong-conic or fusiformly cylindrical. The apex is horny and rather obtuse. The body whorl is shorter than the spire. The small aperture is obliquely oval. The peristome is straight, labiate within and dentate. The right margin is rather expanded. The columellar margin is reflexed and patulous.[3]

Species

Species in the genus Zebrina include:

• † Zebrina beringi Schütt, 1985
• † Zebrina cylindroides Wenz, 1930
• Zebrina dardana (R.A. Philippi, 1844)
• Zebrina detrita (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Zebrina fasciolata (Olivier, 1801) – type species for genus Zebrina
• † Zebrina gumsiana Steklov, 1966
• Zebrina spratti (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)

Species brought into synonymy

• Zebrina caesia (O. Boettger, 1885): synonym of Rhabdoena cosensis (Reeve, 1849) (junior subjective synonym)
• Zebrina carducha (E. von Martens, 1874): synonym of Iranopsis carduchus (E. von Martens, 1874) (superseded combination)
• Zebrina eburnea (L. Pfeiffer, 1842): synonym of Leucomastus eburneus (L. Pfeiffer, 1842) (superseded combination)
• Zebrina kindermanni (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) : synonym of Leucomastus kindermanni (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
• Zebrina libbahensis (Tomlin, 1910): synonym of Zebrinops libbahensis (Tomlin, 1910)
• Zebrina schalfejewi (Gredler, 1898): synonym of Clausiliopsis schalfejewi (Gredler, 1898)
• Zebrina varnensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1847): synonym of Leucomastus varnensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) (superseded generic combination)

References

1. Held F. (1838). "Notizen über die Weichthiere Bayerns". (Fortsetzung.). Isis 1837(12): 902–921. Leipzig.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Zebrina Held, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996239 on 2 November 2023
3. Tryon (1882) Structural and systematic conchology vol. I

• Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017