:Xerocrassa cretica
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| image = Xerocrassa cretica 01.JPG
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Xerocrassa cretica
| authority = (Pfeiffer, 1841)
| synonyms =
- Helix (Helicella) cretica L. Pfeiffer, 1841 (original name)
- Helix (Xerophila) cauta Westerlund, 1879 (junior synonym)
- Helix chalcidica var. didyma Westerlund, 1879 (junior synonym)
- Helix cretica L. Pfeiffer, 1841 (original combination)
- Trochoidea (Xerocrassa) cretica (L. Pfeiffer, 1841)
- Trochoidea (Xerocrassa) cretica cretica (L. Pfeiffer, 1841)
- Xerocrassa (Xerocrassa) cretica (L. Pfeiffer, 1841) · alternate representation
}}
Xerocrassa cretica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Geomitridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa cretica (L. Pfeiffer, 1841). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1049710 on 2022-07-19
Distribution
File:Xerocrassa-cretica-map-eur-nm-moll.jpg
This species is native to Cyprus, Greece, Libya and Turkey.{{cite web| url=http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=1612| author=Welter Schultes, F.| title=Species summary for Xerocrassa cretica| work=AnimalBase| publisher=SUB Göttingen| access-date=27 July 2014}}{{cite web| url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=429085| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808051722/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=429085| url-status=dead| archive-date=August 8, 2014| title=Taxon Details: Xerocrassa (Xerocrassa) cretica (L. Pfeiffer 1841)| publisher=Fauna Europaea| access-date=2 August 2014}}
References
{{Reflist}}
- Westerlund, C. A. &. Blanc, H. (1879). Aperçu sur la faune malacologique de la Grèce inclus l'Epire et la Thessalie. Coquilles extramarines. 161 pp. + errata (1 pp.), pl. 1-4
- Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
{{Commons}}
- {{cite thesis |last=Sauer |first=J. |date=2011 |title=Systematics and Evolution of the Helicellinae (Gastropoda:Helicoidea) from Crete, particularly the Xerocrassa radiation |url=https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2011/5359/pdf/Dissertation.pdf |type=Doctoral thesis |publisher=University of Hamburg }}
- [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12254132 Pfeiffer, L. (1841). Symbolae ad historiam Heliceorum. Sectio prima [vol. 1]. Kassel: Th. Fischer. 88 pp]
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Category:Gastropods described in 1841
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