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Xerocrassa picardi

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Species of gastropod

Xerocrassa picardi
Xerocrassa picardi shells
Conservation status

Extinct  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Trochoidea
Species: †T. picardi
Binomial name
†Trochoidea picardi
(F. Haas, 1933)
Synonyms
  • Helicella (Jacosta) lederi picardi Haas, 1933 (basionym)
  • Trochoidea picardi Haas, 1933
  • Xerocrassa (Xerocrassa) picardi (F. Haas, 1933) · alternate representation
  • Xerocrassa davidiana picardi (F. Haas, 1933)

Xerocrassa picardi was a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.

This species was endemic to Israel.

Conservation status

In the 1996 IUCN Red list, the species was listed as extinct or locally extinct.

According to the Mienis (2003), in 2003 the species was at the edge of extinction.

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa picardi (F. Haas, 1933). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1262257 on 2022-08-06
  2. Heller, J. (1996). "Xerocrassa picardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T22248A9367794. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22248A9367794.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. Mienis H. K. 2003. Xerocrassa davidiana picardi: a terrestrial snail on the brink of extinction in Israel. Tentacle No. 11—January 2003: 10-11.

Further reading

  • Bar Z. 1978. Trochoidea picardi in western Galilee. Levantina 13: 32–134.
Taxon identifiers
Trochoidea picardi


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