Libera (gastropod)
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| Libera | |
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| Libera tumuloides shells | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Endodontidae |
| Genus: | Libera Garrett, 1881[1] |
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Libera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Endodontidae.[2][3]
Originally the genus Libera was placed within the family Charopidae.[4]
Species in the genus Libera include:[2]
- Libera bursatella (Gould, 1876)
- Libera bursatella bursatella (Gould, 1876)
- Libera bursatella orofenensis Solem, 1976
- Libera cavernula (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847)
- Libera cookeana Solem, 1976
- Libera dubiosa (Ancey, 1889)
- Libera fratercula (Pease, 1867)
- Libera fratercula fratercula (Pease, 1867)
- Libera fratercula ratotongensis Solem, 1976
- Libera garrettiana Solem, 1976
- Libera gregaria Garret, 1884
- Libera heynemanni (Pfeiffer, 1862)
- Libera incognata Solem, 1976
- Libera kondoi Christensen, Khan & Kirch, 2018
- Libera micrasoma Solem, 1976
- Libera recedens Garret, 1884
- Libera retunsa (Pease, 1864)
- Libera spuria (Ancey, 1889)
- Libera streptaxon (Reeve, 1852)
- Libera subcavernula (Tryon, 1887) - extinct, the type species
- Libera tumuloides (Garrett, 1872) - extinct
- Libera umbilicata Solem, 1976
- Synonyms
- Libera coarctata Garrett, 1884: synonym of Libera dubiosa Ancey, 1889 (invalid: junior homonym of Libera coarctata Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Libera jackquinoti (Pfeiffer, 1850): synonym of Libera cavernula (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847)
Shell description
The genus Libera was described by Andrew Garrett in 1881. Garrett's type description reads as follows:[4]
Shell small, widely umbilicated, umbilicus (in adults) strongly constricted so as to form a cavernous or pouch-like cavity; whorls 7-9, costulate or striate, last one angulata or carinate, rarely rounded; aperture subrhomboidal or securiform; peristome thin, simple, straight; parietal region with one or two, and the palate with (rarely without) two or three, internal laminae; columella emarginate and furnished with a spiral fold.