Oxychilus draparnaudi

Oxychilus draparnaudi
Oxychilus draparnaudi
Oxychilus draparnaudi
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Oxychilidae
Subfamily: Oxychilinae
Genus: Oxychilus
Species: O. draparnaudi
Binomial name
Oxychilus draparnaudi
(Beck, 1837)

Oxychilus draparnaudi is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.

Shell description

Oxychilus draparnaudi is large for a zonitid glass snail, also called the dark bodied glass snail with a shell of about 14 mm in maximum dimension. The shell is glossy and is a translucent yellowish-brown in color, somewhat whiter underneath.[2]

Apertural view of the shell.
Umbilical view of the shell.

Anatomy

The visible soft parts of the animal are a very unusual strong dark blue, mixed with grey.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

References

  1. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 23 June 2007.
  2. 1 2 Janus H. (1965) The young specialist look at land and freshwater molluscs Burke, London.
  3. 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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