Candidula unifasciata
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Candidula unifasciata is a species of air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae
, the hairy snails and their allies.
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
, a terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae
Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.-Anatomy:...
, the hairy snails and their allies.
Distribution
This species occurs in European countries and islands including:- Great Britain
- Netherlands
- France
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Germany
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia - in slovakia is as its synonym considered Candidula soosianaCandidula soosianaCandidula soosiana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies....
External links
- http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=1305