Xerocrassa picardi

Xerocrassa picardi
Xerocrassa picardi shells
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Geomitridae
Genus:	Trochoidea
Species:	†T. picardi
Binomial name
†Trochoidea picardi (F. Haas, 1933)
Synonyms
Helicella (Jacosta) lederi picardiHaas, 1933 (basionym) Trochoidea picardiHaas, 1933 Xerocrassa (Xerocrassa) picardi(F. Haas, 1933) · alternate representation Xerocrassa davidiana picardi(F. Haas, 1933)

Xerocrassa picardi was a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. ^[1]

This species was endemic to Israel.

Conservation status

In the 1996 IUCN Red list, ^[2] the species was listed as extinct or locally extinct.

According to the Mienis (2003), ^[3] in 2003 the species was at the edge of extinction.

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa picardi (F. Haas, 1933). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1262257 on 2022-08-06
2. Heller, J. (1996). "Xerocrassa picardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996 e.T22248A9367794. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22248A9367794.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
3. Mienis H. K. 2003. Xerocrassa davidiana picardi: a terrestrial snail on the brink of extinction in Israel. Tentacle No. 11—January 2003: 10-11.

Further reading

• Bar Z. 1978. Trochoidea picardi in western Galilee. Levantina 13: 32–134.