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Xerocrassa

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Xerocrassa
Apertural view of a shell of Xerocrassa geyeri
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Xerocrassa

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Xerocrassa is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Some species of Xerocrassa are instead considered to belong to the subgenus Xerocrassa, within the genus Trochoidea; in those cases the species are listed under the generic name Trochoidea.

Species

There are 53 or more species in the genus Xerocrassa:[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Monterosato T. A. di (1892). "Molluschi terrestri delle isole adiacenti alla Sicilia". Atti della Reale Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Belle Arti di Palermo (3)2: 1-33. page 23.
  2. ^ Species in genus Xerocrassa. AnimalBase, accessed 23 October 2012.
  • Sauer J. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the radiation of the land snail genus Xerocrassa on Crete based on mitochondrial sequences and AFLP markers". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 299. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-299.