Xerocrassa franciscoi
Xerocrassa franciscoi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies. This species is endemic to Greece, where it is restricted to the southern slope of the western Asterousia Mountains, south of Kapetaniana, in central Crete.[1][2][3]
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Species: | X. franciscoi |
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| Xerocrassa franciscoi Hausdorf & Sauer, 2009 | |
References
- Triantis, K. (2013). "Xerocrassa franciscoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- Welter Schultes, F. "Species summary for Xerocrassa franciscoi". AnimalBase. SUB Göttingen. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- "Taxon Details: Xerocrassa (Xerocrassa) franciscoi Hausdorf & Sauer 2009". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
Further reading
- Sauer, J. (2011). Systematics and Evolution of the Helicellinae (Gastropoda:Helicoidea) from Crete, particularly the Xerocrassa radiation (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). University of Hamburg.
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