''Ruthenica filograna'' is a species of air-breathing
land snail, a
terrestrial
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pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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in the family
Clausiliidae
Clausiliidae, also known by their common name the door snails, are a taxonomic family of small, very elongate, mostly left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). Moll ...
, the door snails, all of which have a
clausilium
The clausilium is a calcareous anatomical structure which is found in one group of air-breathing land snails: terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The clausilium is one part of the clausilial appa ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Ruthenica filograna (Rossmässler, 1836). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1003332 on 2022-04-26]
;Subspeciesd:
* ''Ruthenica filograna catarrhactae''
(E. A. Bielz, 1861)
* ''Ruthenica filograna filograna''
(Rossmässler, 1836)
* ''Ruthenica filograna kimakowiczi''
H. Nordsieck, 2019
* ''
Ruthenica filograna pocaterrae''
Egorov, 2022
* ''Ruthenica filograna polita''
(M. Kimakowicz, 1883)
* ''Ruthenica filograna streicola''
H. Nordsieck, 2019
Distribution
This species is not listed in
IUCN Red List
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- not evaluated (NE)
[2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . cited October 26, 2007.]
The native distribution of this species is
Baltic
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, Central European and Eastern European. It has been recorded from:
*
The Czech Republic
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*
Slovakia
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*
Ukraine
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[Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. ''Journal of Conchology''. 41 (1): 91-109.]
* and others
The habitat of this species is
woodland
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.
References
* Rossmässler, E. A. (1835-1837). Iconographie der Land- & Süßwasser- Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten. (1) 1 (1): VI + 1-132. pl. 1-5
* Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D. & Jungbluth, J-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde, 384 pp., 24 plates.
* Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates. [
* Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017.
External links
Clessin, S. (1872). Clausilia filograna (Ziegler) in Südbayern. Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 4 (4): 50-55
Clausiliidae
Gastropods described in 1836
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