Bertia (gastropod)
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Infraorder: | Limacoidei |
Superfamily: | Trochomorphoidea |
Family: | Dyakiidae |
Genus: | Bertia Ancey, 1887 |
Bertia[1] is a genus of air-breathing Asian land snails: they are pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Dyakiidae.
Distribution and conservation status
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Bertia spp. have been recorded from the tropical forests of Borneo and Indo-China: all with very local distributions. The species listed below also all appear to be endangered, primarily due to habitat loss but exacerbated by over-collecting.
Species
[edit]The World Register of Marine Species lists:
- Bertia cambojiensis (Reeve, 1860)
- Bertia pergrandis (E.A. Smith, 1893)
- Bertia setzeri Thach, 2015[2]
Note: Bertia brookei (Adams & Reeve, 1848) is a synonym of Exrhysota brookei (Adams & Reeve, 1848)[3] (Chronidae).
References
[edit]- ^ Ancey C. M. F. (1887). Conch. Exchange 1: 53.
- ^ Nguyen, CaoThai: “Bertia Setzeri, a New Species of Land Snail from Vietnam (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Dyakiidae.” Academia.edu, 2010.
- ^ GBIF: Bertia brookei (A.Adams & Reeve, 1850); retrieved 2 January 2022
External links
[edit]Media related to Bertia (Gastropod) at Wikimedia Commons