Oxyloma sarsii

Oxyloma sarsii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Succineidae
Genus: Oxyloma
Species:
O. sarsii
Binomial name
Oxyloma sarsii
(Esmark & Hoyer, 1886)

Oxyloma sarsii is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails.

Description

Only reliably separated from the very similar Oxyloma elegans by dissection

Distribution

This species is known to occur in a number of European countries and islands including:

Habitat

This snail lives at the water line, at the edges of rivers and lakes.

References

  1. ^ Georgiev D. G. (2006). "Two new species from the family Succineidae (Beck, 1837) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) to the fauna of Bulgaria". Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia 41: 7-11. PDF.
  2. ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.


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