Chondrina clienta

Chondrina clienta
Conservation status
	NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Chondrinidae
Genus:	Chondrina
Species:	Ch. clienta
Binomial name
	Chondrina clienta; (Westerlund, 1883)
Synonyms
	Torquilla avenacea var. arcadica Reinhardt, 1881[2]; Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881); Chondrina arcadica clienta (Westerlund 1883)

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

This species is also known under the synonyms Chondrina arcadica (Reinhardt, 1881) and Chondrina arcadica clienta (Westerlund 1883).[3]

Shell description

The shell of this species is slender, greyish brown to reddish brown. It is conical-ovoid in shape with 7 to 7 ¹⁄₂ whorls. The shell is slightly translucent and shows regular axial lines. There is some microgeographical variation in its shell size. The apertural margin is slightly widened, and has a thin, whitish lip. There are strong, angular teeth along the aperture.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Alpine and southeastern-European.[4] but this snail can occur as far north as on the Baltic island of Öland, southern Sweden. The snails can be found on exposed limestone rocks to a height of about 2,500 m.

This species occurs in:

Feeding habits

Chondrina clienta feeds on calcicolous lichens.

References

IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 September 2008.
(in German) Reinhardt O. 1881. Eine Anzahl griechischer Schnecken. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde, Berlin 1881 (9): 135-137.
"Chondrina clientqa". Molluscs of central Europe. Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
(in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
(in Czech) Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic, cited 19 September 2008
Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.

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[1] IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 September 2008.

[2] (in German) Reinhardt O. 1881. Eine Anzahl griechischer Schnecken. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde, Berlin 1881 (9): 135-137.

[Chondrina_clienta-3] "Chondrina clientqa". Molluscs of central Europe. Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft. Retrieved 2009-02-22.

[4] (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.

[5] (in Czech) Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic, cited 19 September 2008

[Balashov-6] Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.