Oxyloma elegans
Oxyloma elegans | |
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A live Oxyloma elegans | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Succineoidea |
Family: | Succineidae |
Genus: | Oxyloma |
Species: | O. elegans |
Binomial name | |
Oxyloma elegans (Risso, 1826)[2] | |
Synonyms[3] | |
Succinea elegans Risso, 1826 |
Oxyloma elegans is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails.
Description
The shell usually has fewer than 3 whorls. The body whorl is very large and the spire is short. The shell is yellowish amber coloured with irregular radial growth lines. The width of the shell is 6-8 mm. The height of the shell is 9-17 mm (up to 20 mm).[3]
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Genitalia differences separate Oxyloma elegans from Oxyloma sarsii and the genus Succinea. The epiphallus is slightly curved and inside a short penis prolongation distance between penis and the pedunculus is very short.[3]
Ecology
Oxyloma elegans occurs on vegetation in moist habitats such as marshes.
Distribution
This species occurs in European countries and islands including:
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Czech Republic - nearly threatened (NT)[5][6]
- Poland
- Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast[7]
- Ukraine[8]
- Slovakia[6]
- Bulgaria[9]
References
- ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited February 22 2007.
- ↑ Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. pp. [1-3], j-vij [= 1-7], 1-439, pl. [1-12]. Paris. page 59.
- 1 2 3 Species summary for Oxyloma elegans. Animalbase, accessed 14 June, last modified 26 October 2013.
- ↑ Falkner G., Ripken T. E. J. & Falkner M. (2002). "Mollusques continetaux de France Liste de Reference annotée et Bibliographie". Patrimoines Naturels 52. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
- ↑ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001). "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
- 1 2 (Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
- ↑ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/20.shtml
- ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology 41(1): 91-109.
- ↑ Georgiev D. G. (2006). "Two new species from the family Succineidae (Beck, 1837) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) to the fauna of Bulgaria". Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia 41: 7-11. PDF.
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