Oxyloma sarsii
| Oxyloma sarsii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Succineoidea |
| Family: | Succineidae |
| Genus: | Oxyloma |
| Species: | O. sarsii |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxyloma sarsii (Esmark & Hoyer, 1886) | |
Oxyloma sarsii is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails.
Description
Only reliably separated from the very similar Oxyloma elegans by dissection
Distribution
This species is known to occur in a number of European countries and islands including:
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Bulgaria[1]
- Ukraine[2]
- and other areas
Habitat
This snail lives at the water line, at the edges of rivers and lakes.
References
- ↑ Georgiev D. G. (2006). "Two new species from the family Succineidae (Beck, 1837) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) to the fauna of Bulgaria". Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia 41: 7-11. PDF.
- ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
External links
- Oxyloma sarsii at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
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