- Chondrina clienta
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Chondrina clienta 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 OrthurethraSuperfamily: Pupilloidea Family: Chondrinidae Genus: Chondrina Species: Ch. clienta Binomial name Chondrina clienta
(Westerlund, 1883)Synonyms Torquilla avenacea var. arcadica Reinhardt, 1881[2]
Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881)
Chondrina arcadica clienta (Westerlund 1883)Chondrina clienta is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chondrinidae.
This species is also known under the synonyms Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881) and Chondrina arcadica clienta (Westerlund 1883).[3]
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Shell description
The shell of this species is slender, greyish-brown to reddish-brown. It is conical-ovoid in shape with 7 - 7½ whorls. The shell is slightly translucent and shows regular axial lines. There is some microgeographical variation in its shell size. The apertural margin is slightly widened, and has a thin, whitish lip. There are strong, angular teeth along the aperture.
Distribution
The distribution of this species is Alpine and southeastern-European.[4] but this snail can occur as far north as on the Baltic island of Oland, southern Sweden. The snails can be found on exposed limestone rocks to a height of about 2,500 m.
This species occurs in:
- Czech Republic - vulnerable (VU)[5]
- Slovakia
- and others
Feeding habits
Chondrina clienta feeds on calcicolous lichens.
References
- ^ IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 September 2008.
- ^ (German) Reinhardt O. 1881. Eine Anzahl griechischer Schnecken. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde, Berlin 1881 (9): 135-137.
- ^ "Chondrina clientqa". Molluscs of central Europe. Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft. http://www.mollbase.de/list/index.php?aktion=zeige_taxon&id=390. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
- ^ (Slovak) Lisický M. J. 1991. Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ^ (Czech) Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic, cited 19 September 2008
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