Chondrina arcadica

Chondrina arcadica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Chondrinidae.[2] This species is also known under the synonym Chondrina arcadica clienta (Westerlund 1883).[3]

Chondrina arcadica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Chondrinidae
Genus: Chondrina
Species:
C. arcadica
Binomial name
Chondrina arcadica
(Reinhardt, 1881)
Synonyms

Torquilla avenacea var. arcadica Reinhardt, 1881[1]

The species is found South Europe and Sweden.[2]

Subspecies:[4]

  • Chondrina arcadica abundans (Westerlund, 1894)
  • Chondrina arcadica arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881) or Chondrina arcadica clienta (Westerlund, 1883)
  • Chondrina arcadica bulgarica H. Nordsieck, 1970
  • Chondrina arcadica caucasica Ehrmann, 1931

Shell description

The shell of this species is slender, greyish brown to reddish brown. It is conical-ovoid in shape with 7 to 7+1⁄2 whorls. The shell is slightly translucent and shows regular axial lines. There is some microgeographical variation in its shell size. The apertural margin is slightly widened, and has a thin, whitish lip. There are strong, angular teeth along the aperture.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Alpine and southeastern-European.[5] but this snail can occur as far north as on the Baltic island of Öland, southern Sweden. The snails can be found on exposed limestone rocks to a height of about 2,500 m.

This species occurs in:

Feeding habits

Chondrina clienta feeds on calcicolous lichens.

References
  1. (in German) Reinhardt O. 1881. Eine Anzahl griechischer Schnecken. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde, Berlin 1881 (9): 135-137.
  2. "Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  3. "Chondrina clientqa". Molluscs of central Europe. Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  4. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  5. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  6. (in Czech) Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic, cited 19 September 2008
  7. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
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