Causa holosericea

Causa holosericea is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae.

Causa holosericea
Apertural view of the shell of Causa holosericea
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Helicidae
Genus:
Causa
Species:
C. holosericea
Binomial name
Causa holosericea
(Gmelin, 1791)[2]
Synonyms

Helix holosericea Gmelin, 1791
Glischrus (Helix) holosericea Studer, 1820

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Alpine.[3]


Shell description
  • apical view
  • umbilical view

References
  1. IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 4 October 2008.
  2. Gmelin J. F. [1791]. Caroli a Linné, systema naturae. Tom. I. Pars VI. pp. 3021-3910. [Lipsiae]. ([G. E. Beer]).
  3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
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