Xerocrassa seetzeni
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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Species: | X. seetzeni
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Trochoidea seetzenii (Charpentier, 1847)[2] Helix seetzenii Pfeiffer, 1847[3] |
Xerocrassa seetzeni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Distribution
Xerocrassa seetzeni is native to the Near East region, from Syria to northern Saudi Arabia.[3]
In the area of the Negev desert in Israel, investigated by Yom-Tov (1970), Xerocrassa seetzeni was the most common snail species.[2]
References
- ^ Pfeiffer L. 1847. Diagnosen neuer Heliceen. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 4: 12-16. Cassel.
- ^ a b Yom-Tov Y. 1970. The Effect of Predation on Population Densities of Some Desert Snails. Ecology, September 1970, Vol. 51, No. 5: pp. 907-911.
- ^ a b Welter Schultes, F. "Species summary for Xerocrassa seetzeni". AnimalBase. SUB Göttingen. Retrieved 28 July 2014.