Oxychilus draparnaudi

Oxychilus draparnaudi
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Oxychilidae
Subfamily: Oxychilinae
Genus: Oxychilus
Species: O. draparnaudi
Binomial name
Oxychilus draparnaudi
(Beck, 1837)

Oxychilus draparnaudi is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.

Shell description

Oxychilus draparnaudi is large for a zonitid glass snail, also called the dark bodied glass snail with a shell of about 14 mm in maximum dimension. The shell is glossy and is a translucent yellowish-brown in color, somewhat whiter underneath.[2]

Anatomy

The visible soft parts of the animal are a very unusual strong dark blue, mixed with grey.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

Synonyms

Synonyms include Oxychilus drapanaldi, Oxychilus lucidum, Helix lucida, Helix nitida, Helicella draparnaldi, and Polita draparnaldi.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 23 June 2007.
  2. 1 2 Janus H. (1965) The young specialist look at land and freshwater molluscs Burke, London.
  3. ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  4. ↑ Virginia Land Snails, in carnegiemnh.org.
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.


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