Xerotricha conspurcata is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Genus: | Xerotricha |
| Species: | X. conspurcata
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| Xerotricha conspurcata (Draparnaud, 1801)
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Description
editXerotricha conspurcata grows up to 4.5 x 6.8 mm in size. It has a striated mottled brown shell marked with short hairs.[2] This species makes and uses love darts as part of mating behavior.[3]
Distribution
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This snail is native to the Mediterranean region of Europe.[1] It has been recorded in the United States in California and Washington as an introduced species.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Xerotricha conspurcata (Draparnaud, 1801)". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
- ^ "AnimalBase :: Xerotricha conspurcata species homepage". www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
- ^ Koene, Joris M; Schulenburg, Hinrich (2005). "Shooting darts: co-evolution and counter-adaptation in hermaphroditic snails". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 5: 25. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-5-25. PMC 1080126. PMID 15799778.
- ^ Gladstone, Nicholas S.; Bordeau, Trystan A.; Leppanen, Christy; McKinney, Michael L. (2020-06-17). "Spatiotemporal patterns of non-native terrestrial gastropods in the contiguous United States". NeoBiota. 57: 133–152. doi:10.3897/neobiota.57.52195. ISSN 1314-2488. S2CID 225746854.
Further reading
edit- Calcara, P. (1842). Cenno topografico dei dintorni di Termini, 1-32. Palermo. (Roberti)
- Hausdorf, B. (1990). Über die Verbreitung von Microxeromagna armillata (Lowe, 1852) und Xerotricha conspurcata (Draparnaud, 1801) in Griechenland und der Türkei (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Hygromiidae). Malakologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden, 15 (1, 6): 55–62. Dresden
- Gittenberger, E. (1991). On Cyprian Helicellinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda Pulmonata: Helicidae), making a new start. Zoologische Mededelingen, 65 (7): 99–128. Leiden
- Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
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- Arrébola, J. (2011). "Xerotricha mariae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T9794A13016614. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T9794A13016614.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116
- Benoit, C. L. (1857-1862). Illustrazione sistematica critica iconografica de'testacei estramarini della Sicilia ulteriore e delle isole circostanti. I-XVI, 1-248, Tav. I-IX, XI-XI
- Morelet, A. (1880). La faune malacologique du Maroc en 1880. Journal de Conchyliologie. 28(1): 1-83, pl. 3.
- Sparacio, I., Surdo, S., Viviano, R., Liberto, F. & Reitano, A. (2021). Land molluscs from the Isola delle Femmine Nature Reserve (north-western Sicily, Italy) (Gastropoda Architaenioglossa Pulmonata). Biodiversity Journal. 12 (3): 589–624
- Alberto Martinéz-Orti. (2008). Taxonomical clarification of the Iberian endemic Helicella (Xerotricha) mariae Gasull, 1972 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata Hygromiidae). Basteria, 72(4/6), 147–154.