| Chondrina clienta | |
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| Conservation status | |
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NE[1]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Chondrinidae |
| Genus: | Chondrina |
| Species: | Ch. clienta |
| Binomial name | |
| Chondrina clienta (Westerlund, 1883) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Torquilla avenacea var. arcadica Reinhardt, 1881[2] |
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Chondrina clienta is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chondrinidae.
This species is also known under the synonyms Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881) and Chondrina arcadica clienta (Westerlund 1883).[3]
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The shell of this species is slender, greyish-brown to reddish-brown. It is conical-ovoid in shape with 7 - 7½ 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.
The distribution of this species is Alpine and southeastern-European.[4] but this snail can occur as far north as on the Baltic island of Oland, southern Sweden. The snails can be found on exposed limestone rocks to a height of about 2,500 m.
This species occurs in:
Chondrina clienta feeds on calcicolous lichens.