Oxyloma elegans

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Oxyloma elegans
File:Oxyloma elegans 2.jpg
A live Oxyloma elegans
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

clade Elasmognatha
Superfamily:
Succineoidea
Family:
Succineidae
Genus:
Oxyloma
Species:
O. elegans
Binomial name
Oxyloma elegans
(Risso, 1826)[2]
Synonyms[4]

Succinea elegans Risso, 1826
Succinea Pfeifferi Rossmässler, 1835 Oxyloma dunkeri[3]

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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).[4]

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Apertural view of a shell of Oxyloma elegans

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.[4]

Ecology

Oxyloma elegans occurs on vegetation in moist habitats such as marshes.

Distribution

This species occurs in European countries and islands including:

References

  1. ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited February 22 2007.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Species summary for Oxyloma elegans. Animalbase, accessed 14 June, last modified 26 October 2013.
  5. ↑ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001). "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 (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.
  7. ↑ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/20.shtml
  8. ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology 41(1): 91-109.
  9. ↑ 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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