Cochlicopa lubrica

Cochlicopa lubrica
shells of Cochlicopa lubrica
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 Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Cochlicopoidea
Family:	Cochlicopidae
Genus:	Cochlicopa
Species:	C. lubrica
Binomial name
Cochlicopa lubrica (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Synonyms[2]
Cochlicopa repentina Hudec, 1960 Cionella lubrica

Cochlicopa lubrica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlicopidae.

This species can be hard to differentiate from the similar species Cochlicopa lubricella.

Taxonomy

Cochlicopa repentina Hudec, 1960 has been evaluated as a form of Cochlicopa lubrica in 1994.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

• Czech Republic
• Netherlands
• Poland^[4]
• Slovakia
• Great Britain
• Ireland

References

1. ^ IUCN (2007). 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 September 2008.
2. ^ "Cochlicopa lubrica (O.F. Muller 1774)". Fauna Europaea, accessed 10 September 2010.
3. ^ Armbruster G. & Schlegel M. (1994). "The land-snail species of Cochlicopa (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Cochlicopidae): presentation of taxon-specific allozyme patterns, and evidence for a high level of self-fertilization". J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Research 32: 282-296.
4. ^ http://kampinoski-pn.gov.pl/monitoring/2008/10A_slimaki_2008d.pdf

External links

• Cochlicopa lubrica at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
• "Cionella lubrica (Müller, 1774): Glossy Pillar". Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia]
• "Cionella lubrica (Muller), Glossy pillar snail - Biodiversity of Great Smoky Mountains National Park"