''Xerocrassa frater'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of 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 molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

, a

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 inclu ...

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

Geomitridae Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea Helicoidea is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Taxonomic rank, superfamily of air-b ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa frater (Dohrn & Heynemann, 1862). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050696 on 2022-07-20 ;Subspecies: * ''Xerocrassa frater frater'' (Dohrn & Heynemann, 1862) * ''Xerocrassa frater newka'' (Dohrn & Heynemann, 1862) * ''Xerocrassa frater pollenzensis'' (Hidalgo, 1878) * ''Xerocrassa frater pulaensis'' Beckmann, 2007

Distribution

This species is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to the Balearic island of

Mallorca Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. The capital of the island, Palma, Majorca, Palma, i ...

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References

* Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

Dohrn, H.; Heynemann, F. D. (1862). Zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna der Balearen. Malakozoologische Blätter. 9: 99-111

Hidalgo, J. G. (1878). Catalogue des mollusques terrestres des îles Baléares. Journal de Conchyliologie. 26: 213-247, pl. 9. Paris
frater Molluscs of Europe Endemic fauna of the Balearic Islands Gastropods described in 1862 {{Geomitridae-stub