Tudorella Sulcata
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''Tudorella sulcata'' is a species of
land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
which has an operculum, a
terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
in the family
Pomatiidae The family Pomatiidae is a taxonomic family of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that can be found over the warmer parts of the Old World. In the older literature, this family is designated as Pomatiasidae. This fam ...
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Distribution

The species (''T. s. sulcata'') occurs in
Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
,
France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
, Portugal and (''Tudorella'' sp. pl.) also occurs in Morocco,
Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
, Sardinia,
Malta Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two ...
Tunisia and
Sicily Sicily (Italian language, Italian and ), officially the Sicilian Region (), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy, regions of Italy. With 4. ...
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References


Further reading

* Jesse R., Véla E. & Pfenninger M. (2011). "Phylogeography of a Land Snail Suggests Trans-Mediterranean Neolithic Transport". '' PLoS ONE'' 6(6): e20734. . * Pavon D. (2005). "''Tudorella sulcata sulcata'' (Draparnaud 1805) (Gastropoda: Pomatiidae), une espèce patrimoniale de la malacofaune francaise. ''Biocosme mesogéen'' 21: 155-170 (dated 2004, published in 2005). * Véla E., Magnin F., Pavon D. & Pfenninger M. (2008). "Phylogénie moléculaire et données paléobiogéographiques sur le gastéropode terrestre ''Tudorella sulcata'' (Draparnaud, 1805) en France et en Algérie orientale". ''
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Animal Base info
Pomatiidae Gastropods described in 1805 {{Pomatiidae-stub