Albinaria
Albinaria is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, called the door snails.
These species of snails live on limestone rocks, where they feed on algae and lichen. They are known to be active during the rainy seasons, that is, in Mediterranean lowlands, from November to April. Eggs are laid shortly after the beginning of the wet season. It takes two to three wet seasons for development from a juvenile to a fully grown shell. During the intermittent dry seasons, both young and adult snails, aestivate on the rocks or in crevices inside the rocks. For aestivation, aggregates are often formed, sometimes reaching sizes of many hundreds of individuals. During the last dry season prior to sexual maturation, the subadult snail increases the size of its genital organs. Copulation then takes place during the first weeks of autumn rains. Population densities can sometimes be very high, in spite of heavy predation by beetle larvae of the genus Drilus. These insects attack the snails during their aestivation, perforating the shell and eating the snail inside.
Distribution
Distribution of the genus Albinaria includes:
Species
Species in this genus include 111 species:Albinaria adrianae Gittenberger, 1979Albinaria adriani Albinaria alajana Albinaria amalthea Albinaria anatolica Albinaria arcadica Albinaria argynnis Albinaria ariadne Schilthuizen & Gittenberger, 1991Albinaria arthuriana Albinaria avia Albinaria basalifera Neubert, 1992Albinaria bigibbosula Albinaria brevicollis Albinaria broemmei Albinaria butoti Albinaria byzantina Albinaria caerulea Albinaria campylauchen Albinaria candida Albinaria cerigottana Albinaria christae Wiese, 1989 Albinaria compressa Albinaria confusa Albinaria contaminata Albinaria corrugata Albinaria cretensis Albinaria cristatella Albinaria cytherae Albinaria discolor Albinaria eburnea Albinaria edmundi Albinaria evelynae Gittenberger, 1998Albinaria forbesiana Albinaria freytagi Albinaria fuchskaeufeli Nordsieck, 1977Albinaria gerolimena Nordsieck, 1974Albinaria grayana Albinaria greeni Tomlin, 1935Albinaria grisea Albinaria haessleini Fauer, 1978Albinaria hians Albinaria hippolyti Albinaria hohorsti Nordsieck, 1984Albinaria idaea Albinaria idyllica Albinaria ietswaarti Gittenberger & Menkhorst, 1992Albinaria inauris Albinaria ithomensis Nordsieck, 1984Albinaria jaeckeli Wiese, 1989Albinaria janicollis Schultes & Wiese, 1991Albinaria janisadana Loosjes, 1955Albinaria jonica Albinaria kemerensis Nordsieck, 1993Albinaria klemmi Paget, 1971Albinaria krueperi Albinaria latelamellaris Neubert, Örstan & Welter-Schultes, 2000Albinaria lerosiensis Albinaria li Welter-Schultes, 1999Albinaria linnei Gittenberger, 2008Albinaria litoraria Neubert, 1998Albinaria lycica Nordsieck, 1993Albinaria maculosa Albinaria maltzani Albinaria manselli Albinaria mavromoustakisi Brandt, 1961Albinaria menelaus Albinaria mixta Nordsieck, 1984Albinaria monocristata Neubert, 1992Albinaria moreletiana Albinaria munda Albinaria myrensis Nordsieck, 1993Albinaria nadimi Tohme & Tohme, 1988Albinaria nivea Albinaria olivieri Albinaria papillifera Nordsieck, 1993Albinaria pellucida Nordsieck, 1993Albinaria pelocarinata Gittenberger, 1994Albinaria percristata Nordsieck, 1993Albinaria petrosa Albinaria praeclara Albinaria profuga Albinaria proteus Albinaria puella Albinaria rebeli Wagner, 1924Albinaria rechingeri Paget, 1971Albinaria retusa Albinaria rollei Albinaria saxatilis Albinaria schuetti Nordsieck, 1984Albinaria scopulosa Albinaria senilis Albinaria solicola Neubert, 1998Albinaria sphakiota Albinaria spratti Albinaria staudingeri Albinaria sturanyi Wagner, 1924Albinaria subaii Albinaria sublamellosa Albinaria supercarinata Gittenberger & Menkhorst, 1992Albinaria tenuicostata Albinaria terebra Albinaria teres Albinaria thiesseae Albinaria torticollis Albinaria turrita Albinaria violacea Schilthuizen & Gittenberger, 1990Albinaria virgo Albinaria voithii Albinaria wettsteini Fuchs & Käufel, 1936Albinaria wiesei Gittenberger, 1988Albinaria xanthostoma Albinaria zilchi Fauer, 1993