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Trochoidea elegans

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| image = Trochoidea elegans 01.JPG

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Gargominy, O. |date=2011 |title=Trochoidea elegans |volume=2011 |page=e.T156727A4988705 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T156727A4988705.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}

| genus = Trochoidea (genus)

| species = elegans

| authority = (Gmelin, 1791)

|synonyms=

  • Helix elegans Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)
  • Trochoidea scitula G.J. De Cristofori & G. Jan, 1832
  • Trochoidea solarium A. Risso, 1826
  • Trochoidea terrestris E. Donovan, 1801
  • Trochoidea trochillus J.L.M. Poiret, 1789
  • Trochoidea trochlea L. Pfeiffer, 1846
  • Trochoidea (Trochoidea) elegans (Gmelin, 1791) alternate representation

}}

Trochoidea elegans is a species of European air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.{{cite web| url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=429220| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814144754/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=429220| url-status=dead| archive-date=August 14, 2014| title=Taxon Details: Trochoidea (Trochoidea) elegans (Gmelin 1791)| publisher=Fauna Europaea| access-date=14 August 2014}}{{cite web| url=http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=1617| author=Welter Schultes, F.| title=Species summary for Trochoidea elegans| work=AnimalBase| publisher=SUB Göttingen| access-date=14 August 2014}}MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Trochoidea elegans (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426413 on 2022-08-05

Distribution

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

  • Great Britain
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • Italy, including Sardinia

References

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  • Provoost, S.; Bonte, D. (Ed.) (2004). Animated dunes: a view of biodiversity at the Flemish coast [Levende duinen: een overzicht van de biodiversiteit aan de Vlaamse kust]. Mededelingen van het Instituut voor Natuurbehoud, 22. Instituut voor Natuurbehoud: Brussel, Belgium. ISBN 90-403-0205-7. 416, ill., appendices pp

External links

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  • Image of a large group of shells at: [http://elrincondelmalacologo.iespana.es/Repetidas/Terrestres/Trochoidea%20elegans.jpg]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 Gmelin J.F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae]

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Category:Trochoidea (genus)

Category:Gastropods described in 1791

Category:Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin

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