Chondrina avenacea

Chondrina avenacea is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chondrinidae.

Shell of Chondrina avenacea avenacea (specimen at MNHN, Paris)

Subspecies

• Chondrina avenacea avenacea (Bruguière, 1792)
• Chondrina avenacea istriana Ehrmann, 1931
• Chondrina avenacea latilabris (Stossich, 1895)
• Chondrina avenacea lepta (Westerlund, 1887)
• Chondrina avenacea lessinica (Adami, 1885)
• Chondrina avenacea veneta H. Nordsieck, 1962

Chondrina avenacea
A shell of Chondrina avenacea
Conservation status
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia informal group Pulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Chondrinidae
Genus:	Chondrina
Species:	Ch. avenacea
Binomial name
Chondrina avenacea (Bruguière, 1792)[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• Western Europe[3]
• Bulgaria

The distribution of Chondrina avenacea (marked red) on a grid map of the Czech Republic

• Czech Republic - in Bohemia, endangered (EN)[4]

References

1. IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 September 2008.
2. Bruguière J. G. 1792. Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Tome premier. [ABE-CON]. pp. [1-3], j-xviij [= 1-18], 1-757. Paris. (Panckoucke).
3. Species summary for Chondrina avenacea. AnimalBase, accessed 6 January 2009
4. (in Czech) Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic, cited 19 September 2008