Xerocrassa caroli is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.[2][3]
Xerocrassa caroli | |
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Shell of Xerocrassa caroli (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Geomitridae |
Genus: | Xerocrassa |
Species: | X. caroli |
Binomial name | |
Xerocrassa caroli (Dohrn & Heynemann, 1862) | |
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The species joined at least 8 subspecies.[4][5]
- Xerocrassa caroli alegriae Schröder, 1984 [8]
- Xerocrassa caroli caroli (Dohrn & Heynemann, 1862) [8]
- Xerocrassa caroli conjungens (Jaeckel, 1952) [8]
- Xerocrassa caroli espartariensis Schröder, 1984 [8]
- Xerocrassa caroli jaeckeli (Altimira, 1965) [8]
- Xerocrassa caroli scopulicola (Bofill i Poch & Aguilar-Amat, 1924) [8]
- Xerocrassa caroli vedrae (Jaeckel, 1952) [8]
- Xerocrassa caroli vedranellensis (Jaeckel, 1952) [8]
Distribution
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This species is endemic to Spain, where it occurs in the Pityusic islands of Ibiza and Formentera.[1][6][7]
References
- Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
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- "Xerocrassa caroli (Dohrn y Heynemann, 1862)" (PDF). Atlas y Libro Rojo de los invertebrados amenazados de España. (Especies vulnerables) Volumen II: Moluscos. Letra X [Atlas and Red book of threatened invertebrates of Spain. (Vulnerable species) Volume II: Molluscs. Letter X] (in Spanish). Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente.
- Dohrn, H.; Heynemann, F. D. (1862). Zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna der Balearen. Malakozoologische Blätter. 9: 99-111