- Cepaea vindobonensis
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Cepaea vindobonensis 
Cepaea vindobonensis 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 SigmurethraSuperfamily: Helicoidea Family: Helicidae Genus: Cepaea Species: C. vindobonensis Binomial name Cepaea vindobonensis
(Férussac, 1821)[2]Cepaea vindobonensis is a species of medium-sized air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Helicidae.
A shell of Cepaea vindobonensis
The scientific name is derived from the Celtic settlement Vindobona, now known as Vienna, the capital of Austria.
Distribution
Distribution of this species is Pontic and Pannonian.[3]
It includes the following countries:- Austria
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic - near threatened (NT)[4]
- Lithuania - vulnerable
- Hungary
- Slovakia
- Poland
References
- ^ IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 February 2009.
- ^ Pfeiffer C. 1828. Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken. Dritte Abtheilung. pp. I-VI [= 1-6], 1-84, Taf. I-VIII [= 1-8]. Weimar. (Landes-Industrie-Comptoir).
- ^ (Slovak) Lisický M. J. 1991. Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
- ^ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
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