Xerotricha apicina

Xerotricha apicina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Geomitridae
Genus:	Xerotricha
Species:	X. apicina
Binomial name
Xerotricha apicina (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms
Helicella (Xerotricha) apicina(Lamarck, 1822) (superseded generic combination) Helix apicinaLamarck, 1822 (original name) Helix buchetiMabille, 1898 Helix horridulaWesterlund, 1892 (junior synonym) Helix hypaeanaBourguignat in Locard, 1882 (junior synonym)

Xerotricha apicina is a species of small air-breathing land snailin the family Geomitridae. ^{[1] [2]} It is found in southern Europe ^{[1] [2]} (including Cyprus, Greete), North Africa (Tunisia, Morocco), and Macaronesia (Madeira, Azores, Canary Islands, Cape Verde). ^[1]

Partial distribution

References

1. Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2025). "Xerotricha apicina (Lamarck, 1822)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 3 November 2025.
2. "Xerotricha apicina (Lamarck, 1822)". Fauna Europaea . 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2025.

• Gittenberger, E. (1991). On Cyprian Helicellinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda Pulmonata: Helicidae), making a new start. Zoologische Mededelingen, 65 (7): 99–128. Leiden
• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• AnimalBase info
• Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 2me partie. Paris: published by the Author, 232 pp
• Mabille, J. (1898). Notitiae malacologicae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. (8) 9 (2)
• Sparacio, Ignazio; Surdo, Salvatore; Viviano, Roberto; Liberto, Fabio; Reitano, Agatino (2021). "Land molluscs from the Isola delle Femmine Nature Reserve (north-western Sicily, Italy) (Gastropoda Architaenioglossa Pulmonata)". Biodiversity Journal. 12 (3): 589–564. doi:10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2021.12.3.589.624.
• Groh, K. (2012). Bibliography of the land and freshwater molluscs of the Cape Verde Islands, with a historical synopsis of malacological exploration in the archipelago and an annotated check-list. Zoologia Caboverdiana. 3 (1): 37–51