Vallonia excentrica
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| Vallonia excentrica | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | V. excentrica
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| Vallonia excentrica Sterki, 1893
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Vallonia excentrica, common name the eccentric vallonia, is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Valloniidae.[1]
Distribution[]
This species has a Holarctic distribution and has been introduced elsewhere. Its occurrence includes:
- Africa
- Europe
- Australia
- Introduced to south-eastern Australia as well as Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.[4]
- North America
- British Columbia[5] in Canada
References[]
- ^ Marshall, B. (2014). Vallonia excentrica Sterki, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=819970 on 2014-11-06
- ^ Ashmole P. & Ashmole M. 2000. St Helena and Ascension Island: a natural history. Anthony Helson, Oswestry.
- ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
- ^ Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.
- ^ Robert G. Forsyth. Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia Family Valloniidae. Accessed 25 April 2009.
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
Categories:
- Valloniidae
- Gastropods described in 1893
- Gastropods of Africa
- Gastropods of Australia
- Gastropods of Lord Howe Island
- Orthurethra stubs