Biology:Fruticicola fruticum

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Fruticicola fruticum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Bradybaeninae
Tribe: Bradybaenini
Genus: Fruticicola
Species:
F. fruticum
Binomial name
Fruticicola fruticum
(O. F. Müller, 1774)[2]
Synonyms
  • Bradybaena (Bradybaena) fruticum (Müller, 1774)
  • Helix fruticum Müller, 1774

Fruticicola fruticum is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae.[1][3]

Shell description

The shell of this species is globular with a deep umbilicus. The shell color is whitish or brownish.

The maximum shell dimension is about 22 millimetres (0.87 in).

  • Shell
    Shell
  • The umbilicus
    The umbilicus

Distribution

Europe (until recently including the southeastern part of British Isles, where it was probably introduced.)

  • Austria[4]
  • Bulgaria
  • Czech Republic - least concern (LC)[5][6]
  • Germany[7][8]
  • Great Britain - extinct[9]
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Serbia
  • Finland
  • Slovakia
  • Ukraine[10]

Life cycle

The size of the egg is 1.9 millimetres (0.075 in).[11]

This species of snail makes and uses love darts during mating.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Neubert, E. (2011). "Fruticicola fruticum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T156843A5006075. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T156843A5006075.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/156843/5006075. Retrieved 17 August 2023. 
  2. ↑ Müller O. F. 1774. Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. pp. I-XXVI [= 1-36], 1-214, [1-10]. Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber).
  3. ↑ "Fruticicola fruticum (Müller, 1774)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1001797. 
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Fischer (October 24, 2005). "Letzte Änderung am". http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/Check_List_of_Austrian_Mollusca.html. 
  5. ↑ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
  6. ↑ Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic Retrieved April 13, 2007
  7. ↑ Jürgen H. Jungbluth. "Deutsche Namen für einheimische Schnecken und Muscheln". http://www.mollbase.de/list/deunam.htm. 
  8. ↑ MollBase - Fruticicola fruticum - Genabelte Strauchschnecke - Atlas 1991 Retrieved April 13, 2007 (in German)
  9. ↑ Anderson, Roy (2005). "An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland" (PDF). Journal of Conchology 38 (6): 607–637. ISSN 1753-2205. http://www.conchsoc.org/sites/default/files/MolluscWorld/Anderson-2008.pdf. 
  10. ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  11. ↑ Heller J.: Life History Strategies. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited page: 428.

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