''Helicella orzai'' is a species of

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

in the family

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, the hairy snails and their allies. It is

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. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Helicella orzai E. Gittenberger & Manga, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1001044 on 2022-07-28

Distribution

This snail occurs in the eastern Basque Country and in northern

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. It can be found in the

Aizkorri Aizkorri or Aitzgorri (, meaning in Basque 'bare stone', literally 'red stone') is a massif, the highest one of the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain) with 1,551 m AMSL at its highest point (peak Aitxuri, meaning 'white stone'). The massif ...

and

Aralar Range The Aralar Range () is a mountain range in the Basque Mountains of Southern Basque Country. The part of the range lying in Gipuzkoa was established as a conservation area called Aralar Natural Park in 1994. In addition to its natural features, sc ...

s and on Lindux Mountain. It lives under rocks in dry, open habitat types. The population is thought to be stable and there are few threats.

References

* Gittenberger, E. & Manga, M. Y. (1981). A new Helicella (Helicidae, Helicellinae) from Navarra, Spain. Basteria. 45 (4/5): 121-124. Leiden. * Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017 Endemic molluscs of the Iberian Peninsula Helicella Endemic fauna of Spain Gastropods described in 1981 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Geomitridae-stub