Alzoniella slovenica

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Alzoniella slovenica
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Apertural view of a shell of Alzoniella slovenica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Alzoniella
Species:
A. slovenica
Binomial name
Alzoniella slovenica
(Ložek & Brtek, 1964) [2]
Synonyms
  • Alzoniella alticola(Ložek & Brtek, 1964) [3]
  • Alzoniella bojnicensis
  • Alzoniella kalasi
  • Alzoniella slovenica komenskyi
  • Belgrandiella alticolaLožek & Brtek, 1964
  • Belgrandiella bojnicensisLožek & Brtek, 1964
  • Belgrandiella komenskyiHudec, 1972
  • Belgrandiella slovenica Ložek & Brtek, 1964

Alzoniella slovenica is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae, which are sometimes known as the snouted water snails.

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Shell description

The width of the shell is up to 0.6 mm (0.024 in). The height of the shell is up to 1.7 mm (0.067 in). [4]

Alzoniella slovenica is blind. [4]

Distribution

Distribution of this species is western carpathian. [5]

This species is found in the White Carpathians. It is endemic to Moravia (Czech Republic) and in Slovakia. [4]

Its conservation status in the Czech Republic is endangered [6] [7] and it is "rare" in Slovakia. [8]

Biotope

It is a crenobiotic species: it lives in groundwater and it can be found in water wells. [4]

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References

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  2. (in German) Ložek & Brtek (1964). "Neue Belgrandiella aus den Westkarpaten". Arch. Moll. 93(5/6): 201–207. Frankfurt am Main.
  3. Beran L. & Horsák M. (2001). "Taxonomic revision of the genus Alzoniella (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Czech and Slovakia". Biologia, Bratislava 56(2): 141–148. abstract Archived 14 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. 1 2 3 4 (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca , Suppl. 1: 1–37. PDF.
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  6. Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic
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