Xerocrassa seetzeni

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Xerocrassa seetzeni
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Shell of Xerocrassa seetzeni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Xerocrassa
Species:
X. seetzeni
Binomial name
Xerocrassa seetzeni
(Pfeiffer, 1847) [1]
Synonyms
  • Helix seetzeniiPfeiffer, 1847 [2]
  • Helix (Euparypha) seetzeni(L. Pfeiffer, 1847)
  • Helix (Euparypha) seetzeni var. antilibanicaGermain, 1911
  • Helix sabaeaCharpentier, 1847 (junior synonym)
  • Helix seetzeniL. Pfeiffer, 1847 (original combination)
  • Helix seetzeni var. aviaWesterlund, 1889 (junior synonym)
  • Helix seetzeni var. subinflataMousson, 1861 (junior synonym)
  • Trochoidea seetzenii(Charpentier, 1847) [3]
  • Xerocrassa (Xerocrassa) seetzeni(L. Pfeiffer, 1847) · alternate representation

Xerocrassa seetzeni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. [4]

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Distribution

Xerocrassa seetzeni is native to the Near East region, from Syria to northern Saudi Arabia. [2]

In the area of the Negev desert in Israel, investigated by Yom-Tov (1970), Xerocrassa seetzeni was the most common snail species. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Pfeiffer L. 1847. Diagnosen neuer Heliceen. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 4: 12-16. Cassel.
  2. 1 2 Welter Schultes, F. "Species summary for Xerocrassa seetzeni". AnimalBase . SUB Göttingen . Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  3. 1 2 Yom-Tov Y. 1970. The Effect of Predation on Population Densities of Some Desert Snails. Ecology, September 1970, Vol. 51, No. 5: pp. 907-911.
  4. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa seetzeni (L. Pfeiffer, 1847). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1262091 on 2022-08-11


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