Oxyloma elegans

Oxyloma elegans
	A live Oxyloma elegans
Conservation status
	Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; clade Elasmognatha
Superfamily:	Succineoidea
Family:	Succineidae
Genus:	Oxyloma
Species:	O. elegans
Binomial name
	Oxyloma elegans; (Risso, 1826)
Synonyms
	Succinea elegans Risso, 1826; Succinea Pfeifferi Rossmässler, 1835 Oxyloma dunkeri

Oxyloma elegans is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails.

Description

The shell usually has fewer than 3 whorls. The body whorl is very large and the spire is short. The shell is yellowish amber coloured with irregular radial growth lines. The width of the shell is 6-8 mm. The height of the shell is 9-17 mm (up to 20 mm).^[4]

Apertural view of a shell of *Oxyloma elegans*

Genitalia differences separate Oxyloma elegans from Oxyloma sarsii and the genus Succinea. The epiphallus is slightly curved and inside a short penis prolongation distance between penis and the pedunculus is very short.^[4]

Ecology

Oxyloma elegans occurs on vegetation in moist habitats such as marshes.

Distribution

This species occurs in European countries and islands including:

Great Britain
Ireland
Czech Republic - nearly threatened (NT)^[5]^[6]
Poland
Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast^[7]
Ukraine^[8]
Slovakia^[6]
Bulgaria^[9]

References

^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited February 22 2007.
^ Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. pp. [1-3], j-vij [= 1-7], 1-439, pl. [1-12]. Paris. page 59.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c Species summary for Oxyloma elegans. Animalbase, accessed 14 June, last modified 26 October 2013.
^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001). "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
^ ^a ^b Template:Cs icon Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
^ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/20.shtml
^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology 41(1): 91-109.
^ 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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[1] 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited February 22 2007.

[2] Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. pp. [1-3], j-vij [= 1-7], 1-439, pl. [1-12]. Paris. page 59.

[3] 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.

[AB-4] Species summary for Oxyloma elegans. Animalbase, accessed 14 June, last modified 26 October 2013.

[5] Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001). "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.

[Horsák_2010-6] Template:Cs icon Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.

[7] ttp://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/20.shtml

[Balashov-8] Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology 41(1): 91-109.

[Georgiev_2006-9] 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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