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Chondrina arcadica

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Species of gastropod

Chondrina arcadica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Chondrinidae
Genus: Chondrina
Species: C. arcadica
Binomial name
Chondrina arcadica
(Reinhardt, 1881)
Synonyms

Torquilla avenacea var. arcadica Reinhardt, 1881

Chondrina arcadica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Chondrinidae. This species is also known under the synonym Chondrina arcadica clienta (Westerlund 1883).

The species is found South Europe and Sweden.

Subspecies:

  • Chondrina arcadica abundans (Westerlund, 1894)
  • Chondrina arcadica arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881) or Chondrina arcadica clienta (Westerlund, 1883)
  • Chondrina arcadica bulgarica H. Nordsieck, 1970
  • Chondrina arcadica caucasica Ehrmann, 1931

Shell description

The shell of this species is slender, greyish brown to reddish brown. It is conical-ovoid in shape with 7 to 7+1⁄2 whorls. The shell is slightly translucent and shows regular axial lines. There is some microgeographical variation in its shell size. The apertural margin is slightly widened, and has a thin, whitish lip. There are strong, angular teeth along the aperture.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Alpine and southeastern-European. but this snail can occur as far north as on the Baltic island of Öland, southern Sweden. The snails can be found on exposed limestone rocks to a height of about 2,500 m.

This species occurs in:

Feeding habits

Chondrina clienta feeds on calcicolous lichens.

References

  1. (in German) Reinhardt O. 1881. Eine Anzahl griechischer Schnecken. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde, Berlin 1881 (9): 135-137.
  2. ^ "Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  3. "Chondrina clientqa". Molluscs of central Europe. Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  4. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  5. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska . VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  6. (in Czech) Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic, cited 19 September 2008
  7. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
Taxon identifiers
Chondrina arcadica
Chondrina clienta

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