Elona quimperiana, common name

Common name

A common name of a taxon or organism is a name in general use within a community; it is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism...

 the escargot de Quimper ("Quimper snail"), is a species

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 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 Elonidae

Elonidae

Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.This family is within the clade Eupulmonata ....

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Elona is a monotypic genus, i.e. it contains only one species, Elona quimperiana. The specific name comes from the city of Quimper in France.

This snail is mentioned in annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive.
Elona quimperiana was originally described (under the name Helix quimperiana) by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac

André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac

Baron André Étienne Justin Pascal Joseph François d'Audebert de Férussac was a French naturalist best known for his studies of molluscs...

 in 1821.

Férussac's original text (the type description) reads in the French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 as follows:
Which means in English:

“Habitat: Margin of Briec

Briec

Briec , is a commune in the Finistère department in the region of Brittany in north-western France.-Sights:*Saint-Pierre parish church, 15th century*Chapelle de la Madeleine, 16th century...

 (Briec-de-l'Odet) near Quimper in Brittany.