Libera (gastropod)
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 in the genus Libera include:
- Libera bursatella
- * Libera bursatella bursatella
- * Libera bursatella orofenensis Solem, 1976
- Libera cookeana Solem, 1976
- Libera dubiosa
- Libera fratercula
- * Libera fratercula fratercula
- * Libera fratercula ratotongensis Solem, 1976
- Libera garrettiana Solem, 1976
- Libera gregaria Garret, 1884
- Libera heynemanni
- Libera incognata Solem, 1976
- Libera jackquinoti
- Libera micrasoma Solem, 1976
- Libera recedens Garret, 1884
- Libera retunsa
- Libera spuria
- Libera streptaxon
- Libera subcavernula - extinct, the type species
- Libera tumuloides - extinct
- Libera umbilicata Solem, 1976
The genus Libera was described by Andrew Garrett in 1881. Garrett's type description reads as follows:These snails lay their eggs into the umbilicus of their own shells.
