Xerocrassa picardi
| Xerocrassa picardi | |
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| Trochoidea davidiana picardi shells | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Species: | T. picardi
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| Binomial name | |
| Trochoidea picardi F. Haas, 1933
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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
- ^ Heller, J. 1996. Trochoidea picardi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ 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
- Bar Z. 1978. Trochoidea picardi in western Galilee. Levantina 13: 32–134.
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