Causa holosericea

Causa holosericea is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae. [2]

Causa holosericea
Shell of Causa holosericea (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Helicidae
Genus:
Causa
Species:
C. holosericea
Binomial name
Causa holosericea
(S. Studer, 1820)
Synonyms
  • Helix holosericea Gmelin, 1791
  • Glischrus (Helix) holosericea S. Studer, 1820

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Alpine.[3]

Shell description
  • apical view
  • umbilical view

References
  1. IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 4 October 2008.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Causa holosericea (S. Studer, 1820). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1002171 on 2020-07-30
  3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
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