Abida secale
Encyclopedia
Abida secale is a species
of small air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chondrinidae
.
This species is known to occur in a number of Western European countries and islands including:
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of small air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
, a terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chondrinidae
Chondrinidae
Chondrinidae is a family of mostly minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata.-Anatomy:In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 ....
.
Distribution
Distribution of this species is western European and Alpine.This species is known to occur in a number of Western European countries and islands including:
- Great Britain: England
- SardiniaSardiniaSardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...
- SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
- and other areas
Subspecies
This species has a number of named subspecies:- Abida secale secale
- Abida secale cadiensis Gittenberger, 1973
- Abida secale lilietensis (Bofill, 1886)
- Abida secale margaridae Bech, 1988
- Abida secale branopsis (Bofill, 1886)
- Abida secale vilellai Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010
- Abida secale peteri Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010
- Abida secale merijni Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010
- Abida secale ionicae Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010
External links
- Abida secale at AnimalBaseAnimalBaseAnimalBase is a project brought to life in 2004 and is maintained by the University of Göttingen, Germany. The goal of the AnimalBase project is to digitize early zoological literature, provide copyright-free open access to zoological works, and provide manually verified lists of names of...