Cernuella neglecta

Cernuella neglecta
Conservation status
NE
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
Subfamily: Hygromiinae
Tribe: Hygromiini
Genus: Cernuella
Species: C. neglecta
Binomial name
Cernuella neglecta
(Draparnaud, 1805)

Cernuella neglecta, the dune snail, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Hygromiidae.

This is a small snail with a white and brown striped shell. It lives on chalk banks.

Distribution and conservation status

This species is not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE)[1]

This snail lives in European countries and islands including:

References

  1. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 9 January 2008.
  2. Anderson, Roy (2005). "An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland". Journal of Conchology 38 (6): 607–637. ISSN 1753-2205. Retrieved 30 June 2012.

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