Mandarina
Mandarina hirasei
Mandarina suenoae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Bradybaeninae
Genus: Mandarina
Pilsbry, 1894[1]
Diversity[2]
17 species, 5 of them are extinct

Mandarina is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae.[3]

Mandarina have been traditionally placed within Camaenidae.[2] Phylogenic study by Chiba (1999)[4] have found, that Mandarina is closely related to Euhadra (family Bradybaenidae) and that Mandarina have probably evolved from Euhadra.[2]

Distribution

The genus Mandarina is endemic to Ogasawara Islands.[2]

Description

The shell is solid.[2] The width of the shell is 15–80 mm.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Mandarina include:

Ecology

Mandarina live in various habitats including arboreal, semi-arboreal, ground habitats, wet habitats and dry habitats.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1894). In Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. Manual of Conchology (2)9: 214.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Chiba, S. (2010). "Species Diversity and Conservation of Mandarina, an Endemic Land Snail of the Ogasawara Islands". Restoring the Oceanic Island Ecosystem. pp. 117–125. doi:10.1007/978-4-431-53859-2_18. ISBN 978-4-431-53858-5. PDF (2010 reprint) Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Davison, A.; Chiba, S. (2006). "Labile ecotypes accompany rapid cladogenesis in an adaptive radiation of Mandarina (Bradybaenidae) land snails". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 88 (2): 269. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00624.x.
  4. ↑ Chiba S. (1999). "Accelerated evolution of land snails Mandarina in the oceanic Bonin Islands: evidence from mitochondrial DNA sequences". Evolution 53(2): 460-471. JSTOR.
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