Oxychilus draparnaudi

Oxychilus draparnaudi, Draparnaud's glass snail,[1] is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.[2]

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)

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.[3]

The visible soft parts of the animal are a very unusual strong dark blue, mixed with grey.[3]

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.[5]

References
  1. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 23 June 2007.
  2. Spencer, H. G.; Marshall, B. A.; Willan, R. C. (2009). "Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca". In Gordon, Dennis P. (ed.). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. pp. 196–219. ISBN 9781877257728. OCLC 340800193.
  3. Janus H. (1965) The young specialist look at land and freshwater molluscs Burke, London.
  4. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  5. Virginia Land Snails, in carnegiemnh.org.



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