{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Caucasotachea atrolabiata.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Caucasotachea atrolabiata]]'' | taxon = Caucasotachea | authority = [[Caesar Rudolf Boettger|C. R. Boettger]], 1909 | type_species = ''Helix atrolabiata'' | type_species_authority = [[Jan A. Krynicki|Krynicki]], 1833<ref name = WoRMS>{{cite web | url = https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996428 | title = Caucasotachea C. R. Boettger, 1909 | accessdate = 30 July 2023 | work = MolluscaBase}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = WoRMS/> | synonyms = * ''Austrotachea'' <small>[[Georg Johann Pfeffer|Pfeffer]], 1930</small> * ''Cepaea (Octadenia)'' <small>Schileyko, 1978</small> }}
'''''Caucasotachea''''' is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing [[land snail]]s, [[terrestrial molluscs|terrestrial]] [[pulmonate]] [[gastropod]] [[mollusc]]s in the family [[Helicidae]].<ref name="Neubert">{{cite journal |author1=Eike Neubert |author2=Ruud Bank |name-list-style=amp |year=2006 |title=Notes on the species of ''Caucasotachea'' C. Boettger 1909 and ''Lindholmia'' P. Hesse 1919, with annotations to the Helicidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae) |journal=Archiv für Molluskenkunde |volume=135 |issue=1 |pages=101–132 |doi=10.1127/arch.moll/0003-9284/135/101-132}}</ref>
==Species== The following extant species are currently classified in the genus:<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Neiber |first1=Marco T. |last2=Sagorny |first2=Christina |last3=Sauer |first3=Jan |last4=Walther |first4=Frank |last5=Hausdorf |first5=Bernhard |date=2016 |title=Phylogeographic analyses reveal Transpontic long distance dispersal in land snails belonging to the Caucasotachea atrolabiata complex (Gastropoda: Helicidae) |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1055790316301737 |journal=[[Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution]] |language=en |volume=103 |pages=172–183 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.017|pmid=27450782 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Korábek |first1=Ondřej |last2=Juřičková |first2=Lucie |last3=Petrusek |first3=Adam |date=2021-12-31 |title=Diversity of Land Snail Tribe Helicini (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicidae): Where Do We Stand after 20 Years of Sequencing Mitochondrial Markers? |journal=Diversity |language=en |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=24 |doi=10.3390/d14010024 |issn=1424-2818 |doi-access=free }}</ref> * ''[[Caucasotachea atrolabiata]]'' <small>(Krynicki, 1833)</small> * ''[[Caucasotachea leucoranea]]'' <small>([[Albert Mousson|Mousson]], 1863)</small> * ''[[Caucasotachea vindobonensis]]'' <small>([[Carl Jonas Pfeiffer|C. Pfeiffer]], 1828)</small> Several fossil taxa are placed to ''Caucasotachea'': * † ''[[Caucasotachea andrussovi]]'' <small>Steklov, 1966</small> * † ''[[Caucasotachea beringi]]'' <small>Schütt, 1985</small> * † ''[[Caucasotachea candirensis]]'' <small>Schütt, 1985</small> * † ''[[Caucasotachea kubanica]]'' <small>Steklov, 1966</small> * † ''[[Caucasotachea phrygomysica]]'' <small>(Oppenheim, 1919)</small>
== Genetics == The haploid number of chromosomes is 25 (''C. vindobonensis'')<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gill |first1=J. J. B. |last2=Cain |first2=A. J. |date=1986 |title=The chromosomes of Cepaea vindobonensis (Pulmonata: Helicidae) and the relationship between this species and the rest of the genus |url=https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1986.tb01760.x |journal=[[Biological Journal of the Linnean Society]] |language=en |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=315–320 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.1986.tb01760.x|url-access=subscription }}</ref> or 26 (''C. atrolabiata'').<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bakhtadze |first1=N. G. |last2=Chakvetadze |first2=N. L. |last3=Mumladze |first3=L. J. |last4=Bakhtadze |first4=G. I. |last5=Tskhadaia |first5=E. A. |date=2016 |title=Karyological Data of Terrestrial Mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of Georgia |url=http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/6224/1/XXV%20-%20bakhtadze.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the Institute of Zoology (Ilia State University, Tbilisi) |volume=25 |pages=23–27}}</ref>
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[[Category:Helicidae]] [[Category:Gastropod genera]]