Trochoidea picardi

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

Trochoidea picardi
Trochoidea davidiana picardi shells
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:
Trochoidea
Species:
T. picardi
Binomial name
Trochoidea picardi
F. Haas, 1933
Synonyms

Xerocrassa davidiana picardi (F. Haas, 1933)

This species is or was endemic to Israel.

Conservation status

In the 1996 IUCN Red list,[1] the species was listed as extinct or locally extinct.

According to the Mienis (2003),[2] in 2003 the species was at the edge of extinction.

References
  1. Heller, J. 1996. Trochoidea picardi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. Mienis H. K. 2003. Xerocrassa davidiana picardi: a terrestrial snail on the brink of extinction in Israel. Tentacle No. 11—January 2003: 10-11.

Further reading
  • Bar Z. 1978. Trochoidea picardi in western Galilee. Levantina 13: 32–134.


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