Vallonia is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Valloniidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vallonia Risso, 1826. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=593140 on 2023-01-21
Vallonia is the type genus of the family Valloniidae.
Species Species in the genus Vallonia include:Forsyth R. G. Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia. Family Valloniidae. Accessed 25 April 2009.Coppolino M. L. (2009). Land Snails of Southern Illinois. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA. Last updated 31 January 2009, accessed 25 April 2009.
Vallonia asiatica (G. Nevill, 1878) † Vallonia berryi Pierce, 1992 † Vallonia brochoni (Degrange-Touzin, 1892) † Vallonia chimaira Gerber, 1996 Vallonia chinensis K. Suzuki, 1944 Vallonia costata (O. F. Müller, 1774) Vallonia costohimala Gerber & Bössneck, 2009 Vallonia cyclophorella Sterki, 1892 - silky vallonia Vallonia declivis Sterki, 1893 Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF. Vallonia eiapopeia Gerber, 1996 Vallonia enniensis (Gredler, 1856) Vallonia excentrica Sterki, 1893 - excentric vallonia † Vallonia gigantea Steklov, 1967 † Vallonia girauxae (Cossmann, 1902) Vallonia gracilicosta Reinhardt, 1883 Vallonia himalaevis Gerber & Bössneck, 2009 † Vallonia hoppla Gerber, 1996 Vallonia kamtschatica I. M. Likharev, 1963 Vallonia kathrinae Gerber & Bössneck, 2009 † Vallonia kootenayorum Pierce, 2001 Vallonia ladacensis (G. Nevill, 1878) † Vallonia laxa Gerber, 1996 † Vallonia lepida (Reuss, 1849) † Vallonia major Gottschick, 1920 Vallonia mionecton (O. Boettger, 1889) † Vallonia pallaryi Wenz, 1919 Vallonia parvula Sterki, 1893 Vallonia patens Reinhardt, 1883 Vallonia persica Rosen, 1892 Vallonia perspectiva Sterki, 1893 - thin lip vallonia Vallonia peteri Schileyko, 1984 Vallonia pulchella (O. F. Müller, 1774) - lovely vallonia - type species Vallonia pulchellula (Heude, 1882) Vallonia ranovi Meng & Gerber, 2008 † Vallonia sandbergeri (Deshayes, 1863) † Vallonia sparnacensis (Deshayes, 1863) † Vallonia stworzewiczae Neubauer, 2013 † Vallonia subcyclophorella (Gottschick, 1911) Vallonia suevica Geyer, 1908 Vallonia tenuilabris (Braun, 1843) Vallonia terraenovae Gerber, 1996 Vallonia tokunagai K. Suzuki, 1944 † Vallonia tumida Stworzewicz, 2007 Vallonia zaru Almuhambetova, 1979 † Vallonia zykini Prysiazhniuk, 2016 †
Synonyms Vallonia allamanica Geyer, 1908: synonym of Vallonia suevica Geyer, 1908 (junior synonym) Vallonia albula Sterki, 1893: synonym of Vallonia gracilicosta Reinhardt, 1883 Vallonia americana Ancey, 1893: synonym of Vallonia parvula Sterki, 1893 (junior subjective synonym) Vallonia astoma O. Boettger, 1909: synonym of Gittenbergia sororcula (Benoit, 1859) (junior synonym) Vallonia costataeformis Jooss, 1912: synonym of Vallonia costata (O. F. Müller, 1774) (junior subjective synonym) Vallonia jurassica Geyer, 1908: synonym of Vallonia costata (O. F. Müller, 1774) Vallonia ladakensis (G. Nevill, 1878): synonym of Vallonia ladacensis (G. Nevill, 1878) (unjustified emendation of Vallonia ladacensis (Nevill, 1878)) Vallonia miserrima Gude, 1907: synonym of Vallonia ladacensis (G. Nevill, 1878) (junior synonym) Vallonia miserrina Gude, 1907: synonym of Vallonia miserrima Gude, 1907: synonym of Vallonia ladacensis (G. Nevill, 1878) (incorrect subsequent spelling) † Vallonia moguntiaca Wenz, 1915: synonym of † Vallonia lepida (Reuss, 1849) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym) Vallonia rosalia Risso, 1826: synonym of Vallonia costata (O. F. Müller, 1774) Vallonia sonorana Pilsbry, 1915: synonym of Vallonia gracilicosta Reinhardt, 1883 † Vallonia subpulchella (F. Sandberger, 1872): synonym of † Vallonia lepida (Reuss, 1849) (junior subjective synonym) Vallonia tenera (Reinhardt, 1877): synonym of Vallonia pulchellula (Heude, 1882) (junior synonym)
References
Schileyko, A. A. (1984). Nazemnye molljuski podotrjada Pupillina fauny SSSR (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Geophila). In:. Fauna SSSR, Molljuski. III, 3 Pfeffer, G. (1930). Zur Kenntnis tertiärer Landschnecken. Geologisch-Paläontologische Abhandlungen, neue Folge. 17(3): 153-380, pl. 15-17. Schileyko, A. A. (1998). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 1. Achatinellidae, Amastridae, Orculidae, Strobilopsidae, Spelaeodiscidae, Valloniidae, Cochlicopidae, Pupillidae, Chondrinidae, Pyramidellidae. Ruthenica. Supplement 2: 1-127. Moskva
Further reading Gerber J. (1996). "Revision der Gattung Vallonia Risso, 1826 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Valloniidae)". Schriften zur Malakozoologie 8: 1-227.
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