Cernuella neglecta
Encyclopedia
Cernuella neglecta, the dune snail, is a species
of small air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae
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This is a small snail with a white and brown striped shell. It lives on chalk
banks.
- not evaluated (NE)
This snail lives in 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
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
, 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 Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.-Anatomy:...
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This is a small snail with a white and brown striped shell. It lives on chalk
Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite is calcium carbonate or CaCO3. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores....
banks.
Distribution and conservation status
This species is not listed in IUCN red listIUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , founded in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species...
- not evaluated (NE)
This snail lives in European countries and islands including:
- Czech Republic - Bohemia
- Great Britain - extinct
- Netherlands
- Poland
External links
- Series of life images at: http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/Cernuella_neglecta.html