Oxyloma sarsii

Oxyloma sarsii
Oxyloma sarsii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Elasmognatha

Superfamily: Succineoidea
Family: Succineidae
Genus: Oxyloma
Species: O. sarsii
Binomial name
Oxyloma sarsii
(Esmark & Hoyer, 1886)

Oxyloma sarsii is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails.

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Distribution

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

  • Great Britain
  • Ireland
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Bulgaria[1]
  • and other areas

Habitat

This snail lives at the water line, on the edges of rivers and lakes (not on vegetation).

References

  1. ^ Georgiev D. G. (2006). "Two new species from the family Succineidae (Beck, 1837) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) to the fauna of Bulgaria". Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia 41: 7-11. PDF.

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