Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: New synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) 2539
Author
Kokshoorn, Bas
Author
Gittenberger, Edmund
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-07-16
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2539.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2539.1.1
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Granaria
F.
Held, 1837
Type
species (design.
Herrmannsen, 1847: 488
):
Pupa
frumentum
Draparnaud, 1801
.
Notes.—The genus
Granaria
is disjunctly represented by 7 extant species, in a very large area, reaching from western Europe in the west towards
Iran
in the east. Two species groups can be distinguished on the basis of distributional data, i.e. a western group, represented from the Iberian peninsula to the Balkans and a poorly known eastern group, known after few samples from
Iran
,
Pakistan
,
Oman
and
Yemen
. The phylogenetic relationships of the latter group of conchologically similar species is uncertain. Maybe the eastern group of alleged
Granaria
species
is more closely related to
Granopupa
. Because conchological, autapomorphic character states are unknown, their classification will remain problematic as long as both anatomical and molecular data are not available. The same problem, but seemingly insoluble in this case, applies to the generic classification of the pre-Pleistocene fossil taxa.