Xerocrassa seetzeni

Xerocrassa seetzeni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Hygromiidae
Genus:	Xerocrassa
Species:	X. seetzeni
Binomial name
	Xerocrassa seetzeni; (Pfeiffer, 1847)
Synonyms
	Trochoidea seetzenii (Charpentier, 1847) Helix seetzenii Pfeiffer, 1847

Xerocrassa seetzeni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Distribution[]

Xerocrassa seetzeni is native to the Near East region, from Syria to northern Saudi Arabia.^[3]

In the area of the Negev desert in Israel, investigated by Yom-Tov (1970), Xerocrassa seetzeni was the most common snail species.^[2]

References[]

^ Pfeiffer L. 1847. Diagnosen neuer Heliceen. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 4: 12-16. Cassel.
^ ^a ^b Yom-Tov Y. 1970. The Effect of Predation on Population Densities of Some Desert Snails. Ecology, September 1970, Vol. 51, No. 5: pp. 907-911.
^ ^a ^b Welter Schultes, F. "Species summary for Xerocrassa seetzeni". AnimalBase. SUB Göttingen. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

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[1] Pfeiffer L. 1847. Diagnosen neuer Heliceen. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 4: 12-16. Cassel.

[predation-2] Yom-Tov Y. 1970. The Effect of Predation on Population Densities of Some Desert Snails. Ecology, September 1970, Vol. 51, No. 5: pp. 907-911.

[animalbase-3] Welter Schultes, F. "Species summary for Xerocrassa seetzeni". AnimalBase. SUB Göttingen. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

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