Oxyloma elegans is a species of small European land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk belonging to the family Succineidae, the amber snails.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Succineidae |
| Genus: | Oxyloma |
| Species: | O. elegans
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| Oxyloma elegans | |
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Description
editThe shell usually has fewer than 3 whorls. The body whorl is very large and the spire is short. The shell is yellowish amber coloured with irregular radial growth lines. The width of the shell is 6–8 mm. The height of the shell is 9–17 mm (up to 20 mm).[3]
Genitalia differences separate Oxyloma elegans from Oxyloma sarsii and the genus Succinea. The epiphallus is slightly curved and inside a short penis prolongation distance between penis and the pedunculus is very short.[3]
Ecology
editOxyloma elegans occurs on vegetation in moist habitats such as marshes.
Distribution
editThis species occurs in European countries and islands including:
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Czech Republic - nearly threatened (NT)[4][5]
- Poland
- Russia - Sverdlovsk oblast[6]
- Ukraine[7]
- Slovakia[5]
- Bulgaria[8]
References
edit- ^ Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. pp. [1-3], j-vij [= 1-7], 1-439, pl. [1-12]. Paris. page 59.
- ^ Falkner G., Ripken T. E. J. & Falkner M. (2002). "Mollusques continentaux de France Liste de Reference annotée et Bibliographie". Patrimoines Naturels 52. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
- ^ a b c Species summary for Oxyloma elegans. Animalbase, accessed 14 June, last modified 26 October 2013.
- ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L. (2001). "Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 65: 25-40.
- ^ a b (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
- ^ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/20.shtml[permanent dead link]
- ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. (2012). "An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine". Journal of Conchology 41(1): 91-109.
- ^ Georgiev D. G. (2006). "Two new species from the family Succineidae (Beck, 1837) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) to the fauna of Bulgaria". Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia 41: 7-11. PDF.
External links
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