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Carpathica cretica (Forcart, 1950)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Pulmonata - pulmonates »  family Oxychilidae »  genus Carpathica

Taxon in country check-lists*

Europe: Crete, Greece, Asia: Cyprus

* List of countries might not be complete

Description

Shell yellowish brown with milky whitish 1.3 embryonal whorls, translucent and shiny, postembryonal whorl with distinct and irregular growth lines, 1.7-2 whorls, last whorl descending, columellar margin slightly concave, broadly reflected and thickened.
Posterior section of vas deferens enlarged and spirally coiled, inserts laterally to penis, restractor penis inserts to flagellum, vagina covered by a glandular tissue.
Welter-Schultes, F., 2012. European non-marine molluscs.

Distribution

In Crete quite rare, in W Cyprus very frequent. In Cyprus recorded mainly from coastlands and moderately high mountains, rare in very high mountains and flatland plains.
Welter-Schultes, F., 2012. European non-marine molluscs.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [170855]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Carpathica cretica (Forcart, 1950)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Carpathica cretica Forcart, 1950]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013
EN de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea 2.4 [http://www.faunaeur.org] [as Carpathica cretica (Forcart, 1950)]
Data retrieved on: 9 March 2012

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