Draparnaud listed "France:
La Rochelle" as the
type locality.[1][7] This error could happen if Draparnaud did not know origin of imported shells.
Description
The shell is thin,[8] but solid.[4] The color of the shell is white, rather opaque, with a broad chestnut-brown band at the periphery,
and a faint brownish band below the
suture.[4] The shape of the shell is depressed above and below.[4] The
spire is low-conoid.[4] The surface is shining,
sculptured above with close rib-striae, becoming more delicate below.[4] The shell has 5½
whorls.[8][4] The earliest whorl is smooth, shining, forming a subacute
apex.[4] Following whorls are slightly convex, slowly increasing, separated by an impressed suture.[4] The
last whorl is much wider, rounded at the periphery, hardly descending in front.[4]Aperture is slightly oblique, lunate-oval.[4]Peristome is white and thickened with a strong white
lip.[8][4] The umbilicus is rapidly narrowing to a narrow, deep perforation.[4] The width of umbilicus is one-eighth the greatest diameter.[4]
The width of the shell is 15 mm.[8][4] The height of the shell is 8.5 mm.[4]
Reproductive system: penis is slender, ending in a long retractor and the terminal
vas deferens.[9]Dart sac is large, opening into atrium.[9] There is a dense cluster of about ten club-shaped, glandular mucus glands near the atrium base.[9] Spermatheca duct is long.[9]
Cathaica fasciola it is often locally abundant.[12] It was thought that Cathaica fasciola belongs to the cold-
aridiphilous and meso-
xerophilous groups of species in 2006.[5] However it is considered as a typical species of
eurytopic group as of 2018.[13] It is one of main species found in Quaternary
loess terrestrial gastropod assemblages in China.[13]
Cathaica fasciola is
polyphagous and it causes damage to vegetables, fruits, flowers and other economic agricultural crops.[3] The food preference study of Cathaica fasciola was published in 2015.[14]
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abcDraparnaud J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. - pp. [1-2], 1-116. Montpellier, Paris. (Renaud; Bossange, Masson & Besson), page
87-88.
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abcdefZhang, Min-Zhao; Du, Yan-Li; Qin, Xiao-Chun; Zhao, Yu-Jia; Wang, Jin-Zhong; Zhang, Zhi-Yong (2015-10-02). "Study on the behaviour of dormancy breaking in Cathaica fasciola (Draparnaud 1801) (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Molluscan Research. 35 (4): 213–217.
doi:
10.1080/13235818.2015.1044886.
ISSN1323-5818.
S2CID86206848.
^
abcdefghijklmnopqTryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1892). Volume 8. Helicidae – Volume VI. –
Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata.
pages 204-205,
plate 47, figures 60-63.
^
abWu, Naiqin; Pei, Yunpeng; Lu, Houyuan; Guo, Zhengtang; Li, Fengjiang; Liu, Tungsheng (2006). "Marked ecological shifts during 6.2–2.4 Ma revealed by a terrestrial molluscan record from the Chinese Red Clay Formation and implication for palaeoclimatic evolution". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 233 (3–4): 287–299.
Bibcode:
2006PPP...233..287W.
doi:
10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.10.006.
ISSN0031-0182.
^Yen, Teng-Chien (1943). "Review and Summary of Tertiary and Quaternary Non-Marine Mollusks of China". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 95: 267–346.
JSTOR4064348.
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abcdeTryon G. W. (1887) Volume 3. Helicidae – Volume I. –
Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata.
page 208,
plate 47, figures 57-59.
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Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata.
pages 205-206,
plate 55, figures 6-7,
plate 65, figures 7-8,
plate 66, figure 32.
^Sun, T. (1995). "Chromosomal studies in three land snails". Sinozoologia, 12: 154-162.
^County, S. P. (2002). 14 Bradybaena ravida (Benson)(Bradybaenidae) in Cereal-Cotton Rotations of Jingyang. Molluscs as Crop Pests,
page 316.
^
abWu, Naiqin; Li, Fengjiang; Rousseau, Denis-Didier (April 2018). "Terrestrial mollusk records from Chinese loess sequences and changes in the East Asian monsoonal environment". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 155: 35–48.
Bibcode:
2018JAESc.155...35W.
doi:
10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.11.003.
ISSN1367-9120.
^Minzhao, Z., Yanli, D., Xiaochun, Q., Guang, Y., Shuling, S., Jinzhong, W., & Zhiyong, Z. (2015). The feeding selection of Cathaica fasciola to 25 different plants. Plant Protection, 4, 020.
abstract.
^QUIWEN, T. C. T. Z. G., HONGCHANG, S. Z. Z. X. L., & CHIPING, C. M. Z. (1980). STUDIES ON THE BIOLOGY OF DICROCOELIUM CHINENSIS TANG ET TANG, 1978 [J]. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 4, 008.
abstract.
^Wu M., Guo J.-Y., Wan F.-H., Qin Q.-L., Wu Q. & Wiktor A. (2006). "A preliminary study of the predatory terrestrial mollusk Rathouisia leonina". The Veliger48:
61-74.
(in Chinese) Zhang, M., Zong, Y., Wang, X., Cai, X., & Zhang, Z. (2009). Study on the death-feigning behavior of the harmful mollusk, Cathaica fasciola (Draparnaud 1801). Scientia Agricultura Sinica, 42(11), 3914-3921.
abstract,
abstract in Chinese.
(in Chinese) Minzhao, Z., Yu, Z., Xueying, W., Xue, C., & Zhiyong, Z. (2009). The Study on the Body-Turning Behavior of Cathaica fasciola (Draparnaud)[J]. Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin, 17, 199-202.
abstract,
abstract in Chinese.
(in Chinese) Zhang, J.M., Yu, G.Y. & Zhou, W.C. (2011). The identification and control of Cathaica fasciola. Plant Protection37: 208–209.
doi:
10.3969/j.issn.0529-1542.2011.06.045.
(in English) Zhang, G. & Wade, C.M. (2023) Molecular phylogeny and morphological evolution of the Chinese land snail Cathaica Möllendorff, 1884 (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae) in Shandong Province, China. Biological Journal of the Linnean Societydoi:
10.1093/biolinnean/blad067