Trochulus hispidus
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| Trochulus hispidus | |
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| Live specimen of Trochulus hispidus | |
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NE[1]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Hygromiidae |
| Genus: | Trochulus |
| Species: | T. hispida |
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| Trochulus hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758)[2] |
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Trichia hispida |
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Trochulus hispidus, also known as Trichia hispida, common name, the "hairy snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae.
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[edit] Anatomy
This species of snail creates and uses love darts during mating. The love dart of this species is thorn-shaped.
[edit] Distribution
This species occurs in a number of European countries and islands including:
- Czech Republic
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Slovakia
- The British Isles: Great Britain and Ireland
- and others
[edit] Life cycle
The size of the egg is 1.5 mm.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 13 July 2008.
- ^ Linnaeus C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. pp. [1-4], 1-824. Holmiae. (Salvius).
- ^ Heller J.: Life History Strategies. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited page: 428.
[edit] Further reading
- Dépraz A., Hausser J, & Pfenninger M. (21 July) 2009. A species delimitation approach in the Trochulus sericeus/hispidus complex reveals two cryptic species within a sharp contact zone. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:171. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-171
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