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''Xerosecta giustii'' is a species of small air-breathing 
This species is endemic to Italy.
Their shell is colored grey to whitish grey with dark reddish brown apex (end). There can be weak and thin interrupted brown bands. The animal is yellowish grey with a pale grey head and neck. The maximum size is 1 inch. Their diet consists of open Mediterranean shrub land vegetation, on the soil and under stones, also on branches of bushes and grass stems. There is only one known population that occupies an area of not more than 100 x 100 m. They are threatened by habitat destruction.
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 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 ...
, the hairy snails and their allies. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerosecta giustii Manganelli & Favilli, 1996. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050729 on 2022-07-24
This species is endemic to Italy.
Their shell is colored grey to whitish grey with dark reddish brown apex (end). There can be weak and thin interrupted brown bands. The animal is yellowish grey with a pale grey head and neck. The maximum size is 1 inch. Their diet consists of open Mediterranean shrub land vegetation, on the soil and under stones, also on branches of bushes and grass stems. There is only one known population that occupies an area of not more than 100 x 100 m. They are threatened by habitat destruction.
References
* Manganelli, G. & Favilli, L. (1996). Xerosecta giustii a new hygromiid from Tuscany (Italy) close to extinction (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Helicoidea). Journal of Conchology. 35 (4): 335-355 * Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017External links
Geomitridae Endemic fauna of Italy Gastropods described in 1996 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Geomitridae-stub