''Xerocrassa ferreri'' is a species of 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

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

Geomitridae Geomitridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). M ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa ferreri (S. H. F. Jaeckel, 1952). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050694 on 2022-07-20 ;Subspecies: * ''Xerocrassa ferreri ferreri'' (S. H. F. Jaeckel, 1952) * ''Xerocrassa ferreri pobrensis'' (Gasull, 1964)

Distribution

This species is endemic to the

Balearic Islands The Balearic Islands ( es, Islas Baleares ; or ca, Illes Balears ) are an archipelago in the Balearic Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The archipelago is an autonomous community and a province of Spain; its capital is ...

in Spain.

References

* Jaeckel, S.H.F. (1952). Die Mollusken der spanischen Mittelmeer-Inseln. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum der Humboldt-Universität Berlin. 28: 54-143, 4 plates. Berlin. * Graack, W. (2005). Die Gattung Xerocrassa Monterosato 1892 (Mollusca, Hygromiidae) von Mallorca. Schriften zur Malakozoologie. 22: 1-64. ferreri Molluscs of Europe Endemic fauna of the Balearic Islands Gastropods described in 1952 {{Geomitridae-stub