Videna

Videna
Shell of Videna abbasi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Trochomorphoidea
Family: Trochomorphidae
Genus: Videna
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
Type species
Helix metcalfii L. Pfeiffer, 1845
Synonyms
  • Disculus Schaufuss, 1869 (nom. nov. pro Discus Albers, 1850, non Fitzinger, 1833. Invalid: junior homonym of Disculus Deshayes, 1863 [Architectonicidae])
  • Discus Albers, 1850
  • Helix (Discus) Albers, 1850 (invalid: junior homonym of Discus Fitzinger, 1833; Disculus and Videna are replacement names)
  • Helix (Videna) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
  • Nanina (Videna) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
  • Trochomorpha (Videna) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
  • Zonites (Videna) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (original rank)

Videna is a genus of terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trochomorphidae.

Members of this genus are found in Southeast Asia from India into South Korea, China, and into the Pacific islands. Videna have large, umbilicate, planispiral shells with the body of the snail visible through the shell.

Species

Species within the genus Videna include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Videna H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995250 on 2021-06-06
  2. ↑ WADE, CHRISTOPHER M.; MORDAN, PETER B.; NAGGS, FRED (2006-04-18). "Evolutionary relationships among the Pulmonate land snails and slugs (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 87 (4): 593–610. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00596.x. ISSN 0024-4066.