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Species of gastropod
Xerocrassa seetzeni
Shell of Xerocrassa seetzeni
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Heterobranchia
Order:
Stylommatophora
Family:
Geomitridae
Genus:
Xerocrassa
Species:
X. seetzeni
Binomial name
Xerocrassa seetzeni
Synonyms
Helix seetzenii Pfeiffer, 1847
[2]
Helix (Euparypha) seetzeni (L. Pfeiffer, 1847)
Helix (Euparypha) seetzeni var. antilibanica Germain, 1911
Helix sabaea Charpentier, 1847 (junior synonym)
Helix seetzeni L. Pfeiffer, 1847 (original combination)
Helix seetzeni var. avia Westerlund, 1889 (junior synonym)
Helix seetzeni var. subinflata Mousson, 1861 (junior synonym)
Trochoidea seetzenii (Charpentier, 1847)
[3]
Xerocrassa (Xerocrassa) seetzeni (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) · alternate representation
Xerocrassa seetzeni is a
species of air-breathing
land snail , a
terrestrial
pulmonate
gastropod
mollusk in the family
Geomitridae .
[4]
Xerocrassa seetzeni is native to the
Near East region, from
Syria to northern
Saudi Arabia .
[2]
In the area of the
Negev desert in
Israel , investigated by Yom-Tov (1970), Xerocrassa seetzeni was the most common snail species.
[3]
Forcart, L. (1976). Die Cochlicellinae und Helicellinae von Palästina und Sinai. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 106 [1975] (4/6): 123-189. Frankfurt am Main
Neubert, E. (1998). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial and freshwater molluscs of the Arabian Peninsula with descriptions of new species. Fauna of Arabia. 17: 333-461.