Carychium mariae

Carychium mariae is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.

Carychium mariae
drawing of shells of Carychium mariae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Pulmonata
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily:
Ellobioidea
Family:
Ellobiidae
Subfamily:
Carychiinae
Genus:
Carychium
Subgenus:
Saraphia
Species:
C. mariae
Binomial name
Carychium mariae

Carychium mariae was described by Italian malacologist Marianna Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona Paulucci (1835-1919) in 1878.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in European countries and islands including:

References
  1. Paulucci M. (1878). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune malacologique terrestre et fluviatile de l'Italie et de ses îles. pp. [1], I-IV [= 1-4], 1-54. Paris. (Savy).


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