Xerocrassa seetzeni

Xerocrassa seetzeni
Shell of Xerocrassa seetzeni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Xerocrassa
Species:
X. seetzeni
Binomial name
Xerocrassa seetzeni
(Pfeiffer, 1847)[1]
Synonyms
  • Helix seetzenii Pfeiffer, 1847[2]
  • Helix (Euparypha) seetzeni (L. Pfeiffer, 1847)
  • Helix (Euparypha) seetzeni var. antilibanica Germain, 1911
  • Helix sabaea Charpentier, 1847 (junior synonym)
  • Helix seetzeni L. Pfeiffer, 1847 (original combination)
  • Helix seetzeni var. avia Westerlund, 1889 (junior synonym)
  • Helix seetzeni var. subinflata Mousson, 1861 (junior synonym)
  • Trochoidea seetzenii (Charpentier, 1847)[3]
  • Xerocrassa (Xerocrassa) seetzeni (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) · alternate representation

Xerocrassa seetzeni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.[4]

Distribution

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Xerocrassa seetzeni is native to the Near East region, from Syria to northern Saudi Arabia.[2]

In the area of the Negev desert in Israel, investigated by Yom-Tov (1970), Xerocrassa seetzeni was the most common snail species.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Pfeiffer L. 1847. Diagnosen neuer Heliceen. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 4: 12-16. Cassel.
  2. ^ a b Welter Schultes, F. "Species summary for Xerocrassa seetzeni". AnimalBase. SUB Göttingen. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  3. ^ a b Yom-Tov Y. 1970. The Effect of Predation on Population Densities of Some Desert Snails. Ecology, September 1970, Vol. 51, No. 5: pp. 907-911.
  4. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa seetzeni (L. Pfeiffer, 1847). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1262091 on 2022-08-11
  • Forcart, L. (1976). Die Cochlicellinae und Helicellinae von Palästina und Sinai. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 106 [1975] (4/6): 123-189. Frankfurt am Main
  • Neubert, E. (1998). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial and freshwater molluscs of the Arabian Peninsula with descriptions of new species. Fauna of Arabia. 17: 333-461.
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