Aristena rechingeri

Aristena rechingeri is a species of terrestrial gastropod belonging to the family Helicidae. [1]

Aristena rechingeri
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Aristena
Species:
A. rechingeri
Binomial name
Aristena rechingeri
(Fuchs & Käufel, 1936)
Native range of the species
Synonyms
  • Assyriella rechingeri (Fuchs & Käufel, 1936)
  • Levantina (Levantina) rechingeri (A. Fuchs & Käufel, 1936) superseded combination
  • Levantina rechingeri A. Fuchs & Käufel, 1936 superseded combination

It was originally described as Levantina rechingeri.[2]

The species is endemic to the island Karpathos, Greece.[3] It is a very rare species, without published observations of live individuals. Following a phylogenetic analysis of DNA contained in the shell, it has been transferred to a newly erected genus Aristena.[4]

References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Aristena rechingeri (Fuchs & Käufel, 1936). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1648337 on 2023-04-12
  2. "Levantina rechingeri Fuchs & Käufel, 1936". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  3. Schütt, Hartwig; Subai, Peter (1996-01-15). "Revision of Assyriella P. Hesse 1908 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Helicidae: Helicinae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 125 (1–2): 117–161. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/125/1996/117. ISSN 0003-9284.
  4. Psonis, Nikolaos; Vardinoyannis, Katerina; Poulakakis, Nikos (2022). "High-throughput degraded DNA sequencing of subfossil shells of a critically endangered stenoendemic land snail in the Aegean". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 175: 107561. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107561.
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