Oxychilus draparnaudi
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| Oxychilus draparnaudi | |
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| Oxychilus draparnaudi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
| Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
| Family: | Oxychilidae |
| Subfamily: | Oxychilinae |
| Genus: | Oxychilus |
| Species: | O. draparnaudi |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxychilus draparnaudi (Beck, 1837) | |
Oxychilus draparnaudi is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.
Shell description
Oxychilus draparnaudi is large for a zonitid glass snail, also called the dark bodied glass snail with a shell of about 14 mm in maximum dimension. The shell is glossy and is a translucent yellowish-brown in color, somewhat whiter underneath.[2]
 Apertural view of the shell. |
 Umbilical view of the shell. |
Anatomy
The visible soft parts of the animal are a very unusual strong dark blue, mixed with grey.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in countries and islands including:
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Ukraine[3]
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- and other areas
References
- ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 23 June 2007.
- 1 2 Janus H. (1965) The young specialist look at land and freshwater molluscs Burke, London.
- ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
External links
- Oxychilus draparnaudi at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
- Oxychilus draparnaudi images at Encyclopedia of Life
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