Fruticicola fruticum

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Fruticicola fruticum
Fruticicola fruticum
Fruticicola fruticum
Conservation status
NE
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Bradybaenidae
Genus: Fruticicola
Species: F. fruticum
Binomial name
Fruticicola fruticum
(O. F. Müller, 1774)
Synonyms

Bradybaena fruticum

Fruticicola fruticum is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae.

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[edit] Distribution

Europe (until recently including the southeastern part of British Isles, where it was probably introduced.)

[edit] Shell description

The shell of this species is globular with a deep umbilicus. The shell color is whitish or brownish.

The maximum shell dimension is about 22 mm.

[edit] Conservation status

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 13 March 2007.
  2. ^ http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/Check_List_of_Austrian_Mollusca.html Letzte Änderung am 24.10.2005. access 2 March 2007
  3. ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
  4. ^ Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic
  5. ^ Deutsche Namen für einheimische Schnecken und Muscheln
  6. ^ MollBase - Fruticicola fruticum - Genabelte Strauchschnecke - Atlas 1991
  7. ^ Anderson, Roy (2005). "An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland" (in English) ([dead link]Scholar search). Journal of Conchology 38 (6): 607–637. ISSN 1753-2205. 

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