Trochulus hispidus
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| Trochulus hispidus | |
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| A live individual of Trochulus hispidus (an older adult with most of the hairs worn off of the shell) | |
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| Five views of a shell of Trochulus hispidus | |
| Conservation status | |
| NE[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Hygromiidae |
| Genus: | Trochulus |
| Species: | T. hispida |
| Binomial name | |
| Trochulus hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Trichia hispida | |
Trochulus hispidus, previously known as Trichia hispida, common name, the "hairy snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Anatomy
Scanning electron micrograph of the love dart of Trochulus hispidus, Upper image is lateral view - scale bar 500 μm (0.5 mm). Lower image is a cross-section near the base - scale bar 50 μm.
This species of snail creates and uses love darts before mating. The love dart of this species is thorn-shaped.
Life cycle
The size of the egg is 1.5 mm.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in a number of European countries and islands including:
- Belgium
- The British Isles: Great Britain and Ireland
- Czech Republic
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Ukraine[4]
- and others
Interestingly, a hairy snail was found in the plumage of a great tit (Parus major) wintering in SW Poland in 2010. This passerine was the smallest bird species reported to carry a gastropod.[5]
References
- ↑ 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 13 July 2008.
- ↑ Linnaeus C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. pp. [1-4], 1-824. Holmiae. (Salvius).
- ↑ Heller J.: Life History Strategies. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited page: 428.
- ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
- ↑ RUSIECKI S. & RUSIECKA A. 2013. Hairy snail Trochulus hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758) in flight - a note on avian dispersal of snails. Folia Malacologica 21(2):111-112.
Further reading
- Dépraz A., Hausser J, & Pfenninger M. (2009). "A species delimitation approach in the Trochulus sericeus/hispidus complex reveals two cryptic species within a sharp contact zone". BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009(9): 171. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-171
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