Riebeckia Explained

Riebeckia is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Coeliaxinae of the family Achatinidae.^[1]

Species

• Riebeckia adonensis (Godwin-Austen, 1881)
• Riebeckia decipiens (E. A. Smith, 1897)
• Riebeckia enodis (Godwin-Austen, 1881)
• Riebeckia gollonsirensis (Godwin-Austen, 1881)
• Riebeckia sokotorana (E. von Martens, 1881)

Synonyms:

• Riebeckia lavranosi Salvat, 1969: synonym of Riebeckia sokotorana (E. von Martens, 1881) (junior synonym)
• Riebeckia sordida Neubert, 2002: synonym of Balfouria sordida (Neubert, 2002) (original name)

References

• Martens, E. von (1883). III. Mollusken von Sokotra. Conchologische Mittheilungen, 2 (3/4): 140–152, pl. 28, 29.
• Salvat, B., 1969. Mollusques terrestres de Socotra et d'Abd-el-Kuri (Océan Indien). Récoltes de M. Lavranos. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 41(3): 743–754, sér. 2ème série, part. Zoologie
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

External links

• Neubert, E. & Bochud, E. (2020). The continental malacofauna of Arabia and adjacent areas, VII. The family Achatinidae (Coeliaxinae, Subulininae) in the Socotran Archipelago (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali. 31 (4): 655–676

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Riebeckia E. von Martens, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995644 on 2022-04-11