Oxychilus navarricus

Oxychilus navarricus
Oxychilus navarricus
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
Subgenus: Ortizius
Species: O. navarricus
Binomial name
Oxychilus navarricus
(Bourguignat, 1870)[1]
Synonyms
  • Zonites Navarricus Bourguignat, 1870
  • Hyalina (Polita) helvetica Blum, 1881[2]
  • Oxychilus helveticus (Blum, 1881)
  • Oxychilus navarricus helveticus

Oxychilus navarricus, before 2002 known as Oxychilus helveticus (Blum, 1881), is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.

Distribution

This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands including:

  • Great Britain
  • Ireland
  • The Netherlands [1]
  • Switzerland
  • Canada - introduced [2]
  • and other areas

References

  1. ^ Bourguignat J. R. 1870. Mollusques nouveaux, litigieux ou peu connus. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée et de Sériciculture Comparée (2) 22: 14-30, 87-97, 166-171. Paris.
  2. ^ Blum J. 1881. Schnecken vom Weissenstein bei Solothurn. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 13 (10): 138-141. Frankfurt am Main.

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