Wollastonaria oxytropis

Wollastonaria oxytropis
Shell of Wollastonaria oxytropis
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Geomitridae
Genus:	Wollastonaria
Species:	W. oxytropis
Binomial name
Wollastonaria oxytropis (Lowe, 1831)
Synonyms
Discula oxytropis Helix (Helicella) oxytropisR. T. Lowe, 1831 Helix (Hystricella) oxytropisR. T. Lowe, 1831 Helix (Hystricella) oxytropis var. subcarinulataWollaston, 1878 Hystricella oxytropis(R. T. Lowe, 1831) · (superseded generic combination) Hystricella oxytropis oxytropis(R. T. Lowe, 1831) · unaccepted (superseded generic combination) Wollastonia oxytropis(R. T. Lowe, 1831)

Wollastonaria oxytropis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies. ^[2]

This species is endemic to Madeira, Portugal.

References

1. Seddon, M.B. (2011). "Hystricella oxytropis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011 e.T6728A12801442. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6728A12801442.en .
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Wollastonaria oxytropis (R. T. Lowe, 1831). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1340246 on 2022-07-21

External links

• Lowe, R. T. (1831). Primitiae faunae et florae Maderae et Portus Sancti; sive species quaedam novae vel hactenus minus rite cognitae animalium et plantarum in his insulis degentium breviter descriptae. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 4 (1): 1-70, pl. 1-6. Cambridge
• Wollaston, T.V. (1878). Testacea Atlantica or the land and freshwater shells of the Azores, Madeiras, Salvages, Canaries, Cape Verdes, and Saint Helena. i-xi, [1], 1-588, 1-16. London. (Reeve)