Azeca goodalli

Azeca goodalli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Azecidae
Genus:	Azeca
Species:	A. goodalli
Binomial name
Azeca goodalli (Férussac, 1821)
Synonyms
Azeca tridens (Pulteney, 1799) (Original name suppressed by Opinion 335) Turbo tridens Pulteney, 1799 Helix (Cochlodonta) goodalli Férussac, 1821

Azeca goodalli is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlicopidae.

This is the only still existent species in the genus Azeca.

Distribution

This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands in Western Europe to Central Europe, including:

• Great Britain
• Other areas

References

• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
• Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D. & Jungbluth, J-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde, 384 pp., 24 plates. [Summer or later]. Hamburg / Berlin (Paul Parey)

External links

• Media related to Azeca goodalli at Wikimedia Commons
• Manganelli, G., Barbato, D., Pieńkowska, J. R., Benocci, A.; Lesicki, A. & Giusti, F. (2019). Unravelling the tangle of the azecid land snails: a survey on the supraspecific systematics based on comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Orthurethra). Folia Malacologica. 27(4): 253-291