Libera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Endodontidae.
Originally the genus Libera was placed within the family Charopidae.
Species
Species in the genus Libera include:
- Libera bursatella (<small>Gould, 1876)</small>
- Libera bursatella bursatella (Gould, 1876)
- Libera bursatella orofenensis <small>Solem, 1976</small>
- Libera cavernula <small>(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847)</small>
- Libera cookeana <small>Solem, 1976</small>
- Libera dubiosa <small>(Ancey, 1889)</small>
- Libera fratercula <small>(Pease, 1867)</small>
- Libera fratercula fratercula <small>(Pease, 1867)</small>
- Libera fratercula ratotongensis <small>Solem, 1976</small>
- Libera garrettiana <small>Solem, 1976</small>
- Libera gregaria <small>Garret, 1884</small>
- Libera heynemanni <small>(Pfeiffer, 1862)</small>
- Libera incognata <small>Solem, 1976</small>
- Libera kondoi <small>Christensen, Khan & Kirch, 2018</small>
- Libera micrasoma <small>Solem, 1976</small>
- Libera recedens <small>Garret, 1884</small>
- Libera retunsa <small>(Pease, 1864)</small>
- Libera spuria <small>(Ancey, 1889)</small>
- Libera streptaxon <small>(Reeve, 1852)</small>
- Libera subcavernula <small>(Tryon, 1887)</small> - extinct, the type species
- Libera tumuloides <small>(Garrett, 1872)</small> - extinct
- Libera umbilicata <small>Solem, 1976</small>
Synonyms:
- Libera coarctata <small>Garrett, 1884</small>: synonym of Libera dubiosa <small>Ancey, 1889</small> (invalid: junior homonym of Libera coarctata <small>Pfeiffer, 1850</small>)
- Libera jackquinoti <small>(Pfeiffer, 1850)</small>: synonym of Libera cavernula <small>(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847)</small>
Shell description
The genus Libera was described by Andrew Garrett in 1881. Garrett's type description reads as follows:
Life cycle
These snails lay their eggs into the umbilicus of their own shells.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 201
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