Catascopia occulta

Catascopia occulta
Conservation status
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Lymnaeidae
Subfamily: Lymnaeinae
Genus: Catascopia
Species: C. occulta
Binomial name
Catascopia occulta
(Jackiewicz, 1959)[2]
Synonyms
  • Galba occulta Jackiewicz, 1959
  • Stagnicola occultus
  • Lymnaea occulta

Catascopia occulta is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

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Distribution

This species of snail is found in the Czech Republic in two localities only: in a small temporary pool near Kladruby nad Labem in the Eastern Bohemia and in temporary pool near the inflow of the Dyje River into the Morava river in Moravia,[3][4] Germany, Poland and other areas.

Habitat

It inhabits freshwater bodies.

References

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 29 February 2008.
  2. ^ (Polish) Jackiewicz M. (1959). "Badania nad zmiennością i stanowiskiem systematycznym Galba palustris O.F. Mull". Prace Komisji matemytyczno-przyrodniczej Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk 19(3): 89–174.
  3. ^ Beran L. (2008). "A contribution to distribution of genus Stagnicola and Catascopia (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) in the Czech Republic". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 7: 70-73. PDF.
  4. ^ (Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.

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