Xerocrassa picardi
Xerocrassa picardi shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Trochoidea
Species:
†T. picardi
Binomial name
†Trochoidea picardi
(F. Haas, 1933)
Synonyms
  • Helicella (Jacosta) lederi picardi Haas, 1933 (basionym)
  • Trochoidea picardi Haas, 1933
  • Xerocrassa (Xerocrassa) picardi (F. Haas, 1933) · alternate representation
  • Xerocrassa davidiana picardi (F. Haas, 1933)

Xerocrassa picardi was a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. [1]

This species was endemic to Israel.

Conservation status

In the 1996 IUCN Red list,[2] the species was listed as extinct or locally extinct.

According to the Mienis (2003),[3] in 2003 the species was at the edge of extinction.

References

  1. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa picardi (F. Haas, 1933). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1262257 on 2022-08-06
  2. ↑ Heller, J. (1996). "Xerocrassa picardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T22248A9367794. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22248A9367794.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. ↑ Mienis H. K. 2003. Xerocrassa davidiana picardi: a terrestrial snail on the brink of extinction in Israel. Tentacle No. 11—January 2003: 10-11.

Further reading

  • Bar Z. 1978. Trochoidea picardi in western Galilee. Levantina 13: 32–134.


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