Abida (gastropod)

Abida is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Chondrinidae.

Distribution

This is a European genus. It consists of about 10 species, most of which are restricted to the Pyrenees and Cantabrian mountains in France and Spain.

Only Abida secale and Abida polyodon occur outside this area.

Species

The species in this genus include:

• Abida attentuata ( Fagot, 1886)
• Abida bigerrensis (Moquin-Tandon, 1856)
• Abida cylindrica (Michaud, 1829)
• Abida escudiei Geniez & Bertrand, 2001
• Abida gittenbergeri Bössneck, 2000
• Abida occidentalis (Fagot, 1888)
• Abida partioti (Saint-Simon, 1848)
• Abida polyodon (Draparnaud, 1801)
• Abida pyrenaearia (Michaud, 1831)
• Abida secale (Draparnaud, 1801)
• Abida vasconica (Kobelt, 1882)

Habitat

The species in this genus all are restricted to calcareous rocks.

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