Alzoniella slovenica
| Alzoniella slovenica | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Alzoniella slovenica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Alzoniella |
| Species: | A. slovenica |
| Binomial name | |
| Alzoniella slovenica (Ložek & Brtek, 1964)[2] | |
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Alzoniella slovenica is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae, which are sometimes known as the snouted water snails.
Shell description
The width of the shell is up to 0.6 mm. The height of the shell is up to 1.7 mm.[4]
Alzoniella slovenica is blind.[4]
Distribution
Distribution of this species is western carpathian.[5]
This species is found in the White Carpathians. It is endemic to Moravia (Czech Republic) and in Slovakia.[4]
Its conservation status in the Czech Republic is endangered[6][7] and it is "rare“ in Slovakia.[8]
Biotope
It is a crenobiotic species: it lives in groundwater and it can be found in water wells.[4]
References
- ↑ Vavrova, L. (2011). "Alzoniella slovenica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ↑ (German) Ložek & Brtek (1964). "Neue Belgrandiella aus den Westkarpaten". Arch. Moll. 93(5/6): 201-207. Frankfurt am Main.
- ↑ Beran L. & Horsák M. (2001). "Taxonomic revision of the genus Alzoniella (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Czech and Slovakia". Biologia, Bratislava 56(2): 141-148. abstract
- 1 2 3 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.
- ↑ (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
- ↑ (Czech) Beran L., Juřičková L. & Horsák M. (2005) Mollusca (měkkýši), pp. 69-74. – In: Farkač J., Král D. & Škorpík M. [eds.], Červený seznam ohrožených druhů České republiky. Bezobratlí. Red list of threatened species in the Czech Republic. Invertebrates. – Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR, Praha, 760 pp.
- ↑ Šteffek J. (1994). "Current status of the molluscs of Slovakia in relation to their exposure to danger". Biologia, Bratislava 49(5): 651-655.
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