Abida secale

Abida secale
Eight shells of Abida secale
scale bar in mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Chondrinidae
Genus: Abida
Species: A. secale
Binomial name
Abida secale
(Draparnaud, 1801)[2]

Abida secale is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chondrinidae.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Western European and Alpine regions.[3]

This species is known to occur in a number of Western European countries and islands including:

Habitat

This species only occurs on calcareous rocks.

Subspecies

This species has a number of named subspecies:

References

  1. Pall-Gergely, B. (2013). "Abida secale". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  2. Draparnaud J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. pp. [1-2], 1-116. Montpellier, Paris. (Renaud; Bossange, Masson & Besson).
  3. (Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Kokshoorn B. & Gittenberger E. (2010). "Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: new synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Zootaxa 2539: 1-62. 22 plates. preview.

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