Zebrina detrita

Zebrina detrita is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Enidae.

Zebrina detrita
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Enidae
Genus: Zebrina
Species:
Z. detrita
Binomial name
Zebrina detrita
(Müller, 1774)[1]
Synonyms

Helix detrita Müller, 1774

Description

A group of shells of Zebrina detrita
Apertural view of the shell of Zebrina detrita

The width of the shell is 12 mm. The height of the shell is 25 mm.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Central European and Southern European.[2]

Habitat

This species lives in relatively dry areas.

References

  1. Müller, O. F. 1774. Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniæ & Lipsiæ. (Heineck & Faber).
  2. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  3. Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001). "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
  4. "ENIDAE, Thoanteus gibber dextrorsa | Conchology".


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