Cepaea vindobonensis
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| Cepaea vindobonensis | |
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| Cepaea vindobonensis | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Genus: | Cepaea |
| Species: | C. vindobonensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Cepaea vindobonensis (Férussac, 1821)[2] | |
Cepaea vindobonensis is a species of medium-sized air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Helicidae.
A shell of Cepaea vindobonensis
The scientific name is derived from the Celtic settlement Vindobona, now known as Vienna, the capital of Austria.
Distribution
Distribution of this species is Pontic and Pannonian.[3]
It includes the following countries:
- Austria
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic - near threatened (NT)[4]
- Lithuania - vulnerable
- Hungary
- Slovakia
- Poland
- Russia - Rostov Oblast, Stavropol Krai, Krasnodar Krai
- Ukraine[5]
References
- ↑ [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/156371/0]
- ↑ Pfeiffer C. 1828. Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken. Dritte Abtheilung. pp. I-VI [= 1-6], 1-84, Taf. I-VIII [= 1-8]. Weimar. (Landes-Industrie-Comptoir).
- ↑ (Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ↑ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
- ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
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