Xerocrassa picardi
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Genus: | Trochoidea |
| Species: | †T. picardi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Trochoidea picardi (F. Haas, 1933)
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Xerocrassa picardi was a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.[1]
This species was endemic to Israel.
Conservation status
[edit]In the 1996 IUCN Red list,[2] the species was listed as extinct or locally extinct.
According to the Mienis (2003),[3] in 2003 the species was at the edge of extinction.
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa picardi (F. Haas, 1933). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1262257 on 2022-08-06
- ^ Heller, J. (1996). "Xerocrassa picardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T22248A9367794. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22248A9367794.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ Mienis H. K. 2003. Xerocrassa davidiana picardi: a terrestrial snail on the brink of extinction in Israel. Tentacle No. 11—January 2003: 10-11.
Further reading
[edit]- Bar Z. 1978. Trochoidea picardi in western Galilee. Levantina 13: 32–134.