Gonospira is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Orthogibbinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gonospira Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996789 on 2021-01-02
Distribution Distribution of the genus Gonospira include: Mauritius and Rodrigues RéunionSutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. .
Species Species within the genus Gonospira include: Gonospira adamsiana (G.Nevill & H. Nevill, 1871) Gonospira bacilla (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) Gonospira barclayi (H. Adams, 1868) Gonospira bourguignati(Deshayes, 1863) Gonospira brevis (Morelet, 1867) Gonospira callifera (Morelet, 1860) Gonospira chloris Crosse, 1873 Gonospira cylindrella (H. Adams, 1868) Gonospira deshayesi (H. Adams, 1868) Gonospira dupontiana Nevill, 1870 Gonospira funiculus (Valenciennes in Pfeiffer, 1842) Gonospira holostoma Morelet, 1875 Gonospira larreyi Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994 Gonospira madgei Kennard, 1943 Gonospira majuscula (Morelet, 1878) Gonospira mauritiana (Morelet, 1860) Gonospira metableta Crosse, 1874 Gonospira modiola (Férussac, 1821) Gonospira mondraini (H. Adams, 1868) † Gonospira nevilli (H. Adams, 1867) Gonospira palanga (Lesson, 1831) Gonospira producta (H. Adams, 1868) Gonospira rodriguezensis Crosse, 1873 Gonospira striaticosta Morelet, 1866 Gonospira teres (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) Gonospira testudiae Fischer-Piette, Blanc, C.P., Blanc, F. & Salvat, 1994 Gonospira turgidula(Deshayes, 1863) Gonospira uvula Deshayes, 1863 Gonospira versipolis (Deshayes, 1851) Gonospira viaderi (Madge, 1938)
References
External links
Germain, L. (1919). Contributions à la faune malacologique de l'Afrique Équatoriale. LVII. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie. 25 (4) : 258-265. Paris