Iberus
Genus of gastropods
Iberus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicinae of the family Helicidae.
This genus was considered to be endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. However, recently, Pseudotachea was synonymised with Iberus.
01Species and subspecies
According to the Fauna Europaea this genus contains the following species and subspecies:
- Iberus alonensis (A. Férussac, 1821)
- Iberus angustatus (Rossmässler, 1854)
- Iberus calaensis Ahuir, 2013
- Iberus campesinus (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Iberus candoni Ahuir, 2021
- Iberus carthaginiensis (Rossmässler, 1853)
- † Iberus delgadoi (Roman, 1907)
- Iberus gualtieranus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Iberus gualtieranus alonensis
- Iberus gualtieranus campesinus
- Iberus gualtieranus carthaginiensis
- Iberus gualtieranus gualterianus
- Iberus gualtieranus mariae
- Iberus gualtieranus posthumus
- Iberus gualtieranus rhodopeplus
- Iberus guiraoanus (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Iberus marmoratus (A. Férussac, 1821)
- Iberus marmoratus alcarazanus
- Iberus marmoratus cobosi
- Iberus marmoratus guiraoanus
- Iberus marmoratus loxanus
- Iberus marmoratus marmoratus
- Iberus marmoratus rositai
- Iberus ortizi García San Nicolás, 1957
- Iberus serpentinae Ahuir, 2020
- Species inquirendum
- † Iberus balatonicus Stoliczka, 1862
- Species brought into synonymy
- Iberus circejus Kobelt, 1903: synonym of Marmorana serpentina circeja (Kobelt, 1903) (objective synonym and secondary homonym )
- Iberus massyloe (Morelet, 1851): synonym of Massylaea massylaea (Morelet, 1851)
- Iberus melii Kobelt, 1903: synonym of Marmorana serpentina circeja (Kobelt, 1903) (objective junior synonym of Helix (Iberus) melii Kobelt, 1903)
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