- Cernuella neglecta
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Cernuella neglecta Conservation status NEScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group SigmurethraSuperfamily: Helicoidea Family: Hygromiidae Genus: Cernuella Species: C. neglecta Binomial name Cernuella neglecta
(Draparnaud, 1805)Cernuella neglecta, the dune snail, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae.
This is a small snail with a white and brown striped shell. It lives on chalk banks.
Distribution and conservation status
This species is not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE)[1]
This snail lives in European countries and islands including:
- Czech Republic - Bohemia
- Great Britain - extinct[2]
- Netherlands
- Poland
References
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 9 January 2008.
- ^ Anderson, Roy (2005). "An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland" (in English) ([dead link] – Scholar search). Journal of Conchology 38 (6): 607–637. ISSN 1753-2205. http://www.conchsoc.org/pages/n_m_list.htm.
External links
- Series of life images at: [1]
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