''Fruticicola fruticum'' is a
species of medium-sized, air-breathing
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 gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
, a
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the family
Camaenidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Fruticicola fruticum (Müller, 1774). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1001797 on 2020-11-26]
Shell description
The shell of this species is globular with a deep
umbilicus. The shell color is whitish or brownish.
The maximum shell dimension is about .
File:Fruticicola fruticum 001.JPG, Shell
File:Fruticicola fruticum 2.jpg, The umbilicus
Distribution
Europe (until recently including the southeastern part of British Isles, where it was probably introduced.)
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Austria
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Bulgaria
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Czech Republic - least concern (LC)
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Germany
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Great Britain - extinct
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Netherlands
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Poland
*Serbia
*Finland
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Slovakia
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Ukraine[Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. ''Journal of Conchology''. 41 (1): 91-109.]
Life cycle
The size of the egg is .
[Heller J.: ''Life History Strategies''. in Barker G. M. (ed.): ]
The biology of terrestrial molluscs
'. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited page: 428.
This species of snail makes and uses
love darts during mating.
References
{{Commons category, Fruticicola fruticum
Camaenidae
Molluscs of Europe
Gastropods described in 1774
Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller