Causa holosericea

Causa holosericea
Apertural view of the shell of Causa holosericea
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Causa
Species: C. holosericea
Binomial name
Causa holosericea
(Gmelin, 1791)[2]
Synonyms

Helix holosericea Gmelin, 1791
Glischrus (Helix) holosericea Studer, 1820

Causa holosericea is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Alpine.[3]

Shell description

References

  1. IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 4 October 2008.
  2. Gmelin J. F. [1791]. Caroli a Linné, systema naturae. Tom. I. Pars VI. pp. 3021-3910. [Lipsiae]. ([G. E. Beer]).
  3. (Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.

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