Oxyloma elegans
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| Oxyloma elegans | |
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| A shell of Oxyloma elegans | |
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NE[1]
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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. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxyloma elegans (Risso, 1826) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Oxyloma dunkeri[2] |
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Oxyloma elegans is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails.
[edit] Ecology
Oxyloma elegans occurs on vegetation in moist habitats such as marshes.
[edit] Distribution and conservation status
This species occurs in European countries and islands including:
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Czech Republic - nearly threatened (NT)[3]
- Poland
- Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast[4]
- Slovakia
- Bulgaria[5]
[edit] References
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited February 22 2007.
- ^ Falkner G., Ripken T. E. J. & Falkner M. (2002). "Mollusques continetaux de France Liste de Reference annotée et Bibliographie". Patrimoines Naturels 52. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
- ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001) "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
- ^ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/20.shtml
- ^ 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.
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