Carychium minimum
| Carychium minimum | |
|---|---|
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| Shell of Carychium minimum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Carychiinae |
| Genus: | Carychium |
| Species: | C. minimum |
| Binomial name | |
| Carychium minimum O. F. Müller, 1774[1] | |
Carychium minimum is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.
Description
The width of the shell is 0.9-1.1 mm. The height of the shell is 1.6-2.2 mm. It is wider than the shell of Carychium tridentatum which it closely resembles. As in C. tridentatum shell is dull white and cylindrical and the mouth is oval with two denticles and a thickened lip. However if the last whorl above the aperture is opened this shows the plica parietalis (a spiral ridge on the parietal region projecting into the interior of the shell) descending in a simple way downwards.[2]
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drawing of shells of Carychium minimum
Distribution
The distribution of Carychium minimum is Euro-Asiatic.[3]
- Northern Europe: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden.[4]
- Western Europe: Belgium, France and Corsica, Great Britain and Channel Islands, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland.[4]
- Central Europe: Austria, Czech Republic,[3] Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia,[3] Slovenia.[4]
- Southern Europe: Greece including North Aegean Islands, Italy.[4]
- Southeastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia.[4]
- Southwestern Europe: Andorra, Portugal including Azores and Madeira, Spain.[4]
- Eastern Europe: Belarus, Crimea,[5] Estonia, Kaliningrad, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine,[4][6] European Russia.[5]
- Southwestern Asia: Turkey, Armenia,[7] Azerbaijan,[7] Georgia[7]
- Western Siberia[8]
- Central Asia: northern, central, and eastern Kazakhstan[5]
- North America - introduced
References
- ↑ Müller O. F. (1774). Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. - pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniæ & Lipsiæ. (Heineck & Faber).
- ↑ Welter-Schultes F. W. (2012). European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification. Bestimmungsbuch für europäische Land- und Süsswassermollusken. Planet Poster Editions, Göttingen. ISBN 978-3-933922-75-5.
- 1 2 3 Horsák M., Juřičková L. & Picka J. (2013). Měkkýši České a Slovenské republiky. Molluscs of the Czech and Slovak Republics. Kabourek, Zlín, 264 pp., page 30, page 63.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Carychium (Carychium) minimum O.F. Muller 1774". Fauna Europaea, last update 29 August 2013, version 2.6.2, accessed 12 A[ril 2016.
- 1 2 3 Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.
- ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology 41(1): 91-109.
- 1 2 3 "Caucasian Land Snails". accessed May 2, 2014.
- ↑ Horsák M. & Chytrý M. (2014). "Unimodal Latitudinal Pattern of Land-Snail Species Richness across Northern Eurasian Lowlands". PloS One 9(8): e104035. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104035.
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