Trochoidea picardi

Trochoidea picardi
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: Hygromiidae
Genus: Trochoidea
Species: T. picardi
Binomial name
Trochoidea picardi
F. Haas, 1933
Synonyms

Xerocrassa davidiana picardi (F. Haas, 1933)

Trochoidea picardi is or was a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

This species is or was endemic to Israel.

Conservation status

In the 1996 IUCN Red list,[1] the species was listed as extinct or locally extinct.

According to the Mienis (2003),[2] in 2003 the species was at the edge of extinction.

References

  1. Heller, J. 1996. Trochoidea picardi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. Mienis H. K. 2003. Xerocrassa davidiana picardi: a terrestrial snail on the brink of extinction in Israel. Tentacle No. 11—January 2003: 10-11.

Further reading

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