Fruticicola fruticum

Taxobox
name = "Fruticicola fruticum"

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image_caption = "Fruticicola fruticum"
image_width = 250px
status = NE
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Bradybaenidae
genus = "Fruticicola"
species = "F. fruticum"
binomial = "Fruticicola fruticum"
binomial_authority = (O. F. Müller, 1774)
synonyms = "Bradybaena fruticum"

"Fruticicola fruticum" is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae.

This species of snail makes and uses love darts.

Distribution

Europe (until recently including the southeastern part of British Isles, where it was probably introduced.)

hell description

The shell of this species is globular with a deep umbilicus. The shell color is whitish or brownish.

The maximum shell dimension is about 22 mm.

Conservation status

* Not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited 13 March 2007.]

* Austria [http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/Check_List_of_Austrian_Mollusca.html Letzte Änderung am 24.10.2005. access 2 March 2007]
* Bulgaria
* Czech Republic - least concern (LC) [Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.] [ [http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/checklist.htm Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic ] ]
* Germany [ [http://www.mollbase.de/list/deunam.htm Deutsche Namen für einheimische Schnecken und Muscheln ] ] [ [http://www.mollbase.de/sh/fruticicolidae/fruticicola_fruticum_atl.htm MollBase - Fruticicola fruticum - Genabelte Strauchschnecke - Atlas 1991 ] ]
* Great Britain - extinct [cite journal
journal = Journal of Conchology
pages = 607–637
title = An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland
last = Anderson
first = Roy
coauthors =
volume = 38
issue = 6
month =
year = 2005
issn = 1753-2205
doi =
url = http://www.conchsoc.org/pages/n_m_list.htm
language = English
accessdate=
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* Netherlands
* Poland
* Slovakia
* ...

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