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:
- Czech Republic - Bohemia
- Great Britain - extinct[2]
- Netherlands
- Poland
References
- ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 9 January 2008.
- ↑ 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.