Abida secale

Abida secale
Eight shells of Abida secale
scale bar in mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Chondrinidae
Genus: Abida
Species: A. secale
Binomial name
Abida secale
(Draparnaud, 1801)[2]

Abida secale is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chondrinidae.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Western European and Alpine regions.[3]

This species is known to occur in a number of Western European countries and islands including:

Habitat

This species only occurs on calcareous rocks.

Subspecies

This species has a number of named subspecies:

References

  1. ↑ Pall-Gergely, B. (2013). "Abida secale". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Draparnaud J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. pp. [1-2], 1-116. Montpellier, Paris. (Renaud; Bossange, Masson & Besson).
  3. ↑ (Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Kokshoorn B. & Gittenberger E. (2010). "Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: new synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Zootaxa 2539: 1-62. 22 plates. preview.

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