Parmacella gervaisii

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Parmacella gervaisii
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Parmacellidae
Genus: Parmacella
Species:
P. gervaisii
Binomial name
Parmacella gervaisii

Parmacella gervaisii is an extinct species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae.

Contents

Parmacella gervaisii is considered to be extinct. [1]

Distribution

This species was endemic to the area near Arles, [3] France. [1]

Description

The animal is brown with olive green hue. [3] The shell is solid, greenish yellow, shiny, entirely opaque, concentrically striated, with 1.25 whorls, anterior part is 3 times larger than posterior part, rounded. [3] The length of the shell is 11–12 mm. [3] The width of the shell is 7 mm. [3] The height of the shell is 2-2.3 mm. [3]

Ecology

It was observed to occur almost always in pairs in April. [3]

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References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference. [3]

  1. 1 2 3 Fontaine B., Bouchet P., Van Achterberg K., Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Araujo R. et al. (2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus." Biological Conservation139: 167-185. Table 2 on the page 173. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. PDF.
  2. Moquin-Tandon A. (1850). "Note sur une nouvelle espèce de parmacelle (Parmacella Gervaisii), précédée de quelques considérations su ce genre de mollusques". Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences , Inscriptions et Belles Lettres de Toulouse (3)6: 47-56.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Species summary for Parmacella gervaisii". AnimalBase, last modified 4 August 2008, accessed 21 June 2010.