Oxyloma elegans

Oxyloma elegans
A shell of Oxyloma elegans
Conservation status
NE[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)
Synonyms

Oxyloma dunkeri[2]

Oxyloma elegans is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails.

Ecology

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

Distribution and conservation status

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. ^ 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.
  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. ^ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/20.shtml
  5. ^ 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.