''Vallonia declivis'' is a
species of very small air-breathing
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 ...
, a
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Valloniidae.
Distribution
This species is found in
Austria,
France,
Germany,
Poland, and
Switzerland
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.
It was previously listed as part of the fauna of Slovakia, but Čejka considered its occurrence in Slovakia unlikely.
[Čejka T., Dvořák L., Horsák M. & Šteffek J. (2007). "Checklist of molluscs (Mollusca) in the Slovak Republic". '']Folia Malacologica
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'' 15(2): 49-58. It lives also in the
Czech Republic (in Bohemia only) and in
Slovakia.
[ Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. nnotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics. '' Malacologica Bohemoslovaca'', Suppl. 1: 1-37]
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References
External links
"Species summary for ''Vallonia declivis''" AnimalBase
Valloniidae
Gastropods described in 1892
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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