Oxyloma sarsii
Appearance
Oxyloma sarsii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Succineidae |
Genus: | Oxyloma |
Species: | O. sarsii
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Binomial name | |
Oxyloma sarsii |
Oxyloma sarsii is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails.
Description
[edit]Only reliably separated from the very similar Oxyloma elegans by dissection
Distribution
[edit]This species is known to occur in a number of European countries and islands including:
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Bulgaria[1]
- Ukraine[2]
- and other areas
Habitat
[edit]This snail lives at the water line, at the edges of rivers and lakes.
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
External links
[edit]- Oxyloma sarsii at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images