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Georissa

Synonyms: Chondrella; Omphalorissa; Petrorissa

Wikipedia Abstract

Georissa is a genus of minute land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrocenidae. Although the species are best known for living on the surface of limestone rocks, they are often also found in and on the vegetation and on non-calcareous rocks. One species, Georissa filiasaulae, is cavernicolous. It is only known from two caves in the Sepulut area of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, where its above-ground sister species, Georissa saulae, inhabits the rocks outside of the cave, and is connected to the cave snail via narrow zones of hybridization at the cave entrances. Possibly, G. filiasaulae has evolved without ever having been fully separated from its ancestor, a process known as speciation-with-gene-flow.
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Species

Georissa ampla
Georissa anaemata
Georissa angulata
Georissa ankaranae
Georissa anyiensis
Georissa atramontana
Georissa aurata
Georissa bachmanni
Georissa bangueyensis
Georissa bauensis
Georissa beerwah
Georissa biangulata
Georissa blanfordiana
Georissa borneensis
Georissa brevissima
Georissa capdambrae
Georissa carinata
Georissa carinulata
Georissa cavini
Georissa chrysacme
Georissa coccinea
Georissa conspicua
Georissa cookei
Georissa corrugata
Georissa crebrilirata
Georissa decora
Georissa denselirata
Georissa detrita
Georissa elegans
Georissa elongatula
Georissa enacoucomae
Georissa everetti
Georissa exarata
Georissa filiasaulae
Georissa fraterna
Georissa froli
Georissa frustrillum
Georissa gomantonensis
Georissa gomantongensis
Georissa hadra
Georissa hendersoni
Georissa heudei
Georissa hosei
Georissa hukudai
Georissa hungerfordiana
Georissa illex
Georissa insulae
Georissa insularis
Georissa japonica
Georissa javana
Georissa johnnetheryi
Georissa kauaiensis
Georissa kinabatanganensis
Georissa kobelti
Georissa krantzi
Georissa laevigata
Georissa laeviuscula
Georissa laseroni (Vulnerable)
Georissa leucococca
Georissa levicordata
Georissa liratula
Georissa luchana
Georissa maraoraoa
Georissa mawsmaiensis
Georissa menglunensis
Georissa minuta
Georissa minutissima
Georissa monterosatiana
Georissa multilirata
Georissa muluensis
Georissa nephrostoma
Georissa niahensis
Georissa nivea
Georissa nodilirata
Georissa obesa
Georissa obsoleta
Georissa pachysoma
Georissa palmerensis
Georissa pangianensis
Georissa papuana
Georissa parva
Georissa petiti
Georissa plicatula
Georissa poirieri
Georissa postulata
Georissa purchasi
Georissa pyrrhoderma
Georissa pyxis
Georissa quadrasi
Georissa rawesiana
Georissa rufescens
Georissa rufula
Georissa saintemariae
Georissa sarrita
Georissa saulae
Georissa scalinella
Georissa semisculpta
Georissa sepulutensis
Georissa shikokuensis
Georissa silaburensis
Georissa similis
Georissa sinensis
Georissa striata
Georissa styloptycta
Georissa sulcata
Georissa trusmadi
Georissa verreti
Georissa walkunder
Georissa wallaceiana
Georissa williamsi
Georissa xesta
Georissa zea

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0