Trochulus striolatus | |
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Plate accompanying the original description by Carl Pfeiffer Helix striolatus is figure 8 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Hygromiidae |
Genus: | Trochulus |
Species: | T. striolatus |
Binomial name | |
Trochulus striolatus | |
Synonyms | |
Trichia striolata |
Trochulus striolatus, previously known as Trichia striolata, common name the "strawberry snail," is a species of tiny, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae. This species of snail uses love darts before mating.
The round 10–15 mm. shell has a depressed, low, conical spire. The whorls are convex, with relatively deep sutures, while the last one is angled on the periphery. The colour is whitish to yellowish-brown or reddish-brown, having irregular growth lines and often a pale band on the angled periphery. The adult shell is hairless but bears scattered coarse hair when juvenile.
This snail is native to northwestern Europe, occurring in:
The distribution of the subspecies Trochulus striolatus danubialis is Danubian. [2]
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