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Hystricella bicarinata

Summary

Hystricella bicarinata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.[2]

Hystricella bicarinata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Hystricella
Species:
H. bicarinata
Binomial name
Hystricella bicarinata
(Sowerby, 1824)
Synonyms[1]
  • Discula bicarinata Sowerby
  • Geomitra bicarinata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)
  • Helix (Helicella) duplicata R. T. Lowe, 1831 (junior synonym)
  • Helix (Hystricella) bicarinata G. B. Sowerby I, 1824 ·
  • Helix bicarinata G. B. Sowerby I, 1824 (original combination)
  • Hystricella bicarinata bicarinata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)

Two subspecies are recognised, one extant and one known only as a fossil.[1]

This species is endemic to the island of Porto Santo in the Madeira archipelago, Portugal. They are terrestrial and are found under rocks in grasslands. They have a very limited range, confined to about ten square kilometers but are abundant within that area.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Seddon, M.B. (2011). "Hystricella bicarinata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T6724A12800659. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T6724A12800659.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Hystricella bicarinata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1003423 on 2022-07-21
  • Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links edit

  • G. B. I. (1824). Descriptions, accompanied by figures, of several Helices, discovered by T. E. Bowdich, Esq. at Porto Santo. Zoological Journal. 1: 56-58
  • Lowe, R. T. (1831). Primitiae faunae et florae Maderae et Portus Sancti; sive species quaedam novae vel hactenus minus rite cognitae animalium et plantarum in his insulis degentium breviter descriptae. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 4 (1): 1-70, pl. 1-6. Cambridge
  • De Mattia, W., Neiber, M. T. & Groh, K. (2018). Revision of the genus-group Hystricella R. T. Lowe, 1855 from Porto Santo (Madeira Archipelago), with descriptions of new recent and fossil taxa (Gastropoda, Helicoidea, Geomitridae). ZooKeys. 732: 1-125