Podolian snail
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Podolian snail ( Helix lutescens ) |
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The Podolian Roman snail ( Helix lutescens ) is a land-living snail from the family of the snail ( Helicidae ) that is widespread in Eastern Europe .
features
The housing is spherical with a blunt apex. It measures 27 to 33 × 24 to 31 mm, rarely up to 37 mm. The four to four and a half turns increase rapidly, the seam is clear. The navel is completely or almost completely closed. The mouth is highly oval with a bent but only slightly widened edge of the mouth. It is white and lipped, the inner lip is whitish or slightly reddish. The housing is monochrome yellowish-whitish to brownish-yellow. Frequently, however, three to five more or less distinct, narrow, somewhat darker spiral stripes are developed. The not very shiny surface has fine growth stripes and clear spiral stripes.
The soft body of the animal is white or gray-yellow. The jaw has 5 to 6 thicker ribs, between which one or two finer ribs are inserted. The love arrow is slightly curved with a distinct crown and four edges. Two are split in the shape of a channel.
Similar species
The shell is slightly more conical than the shell of the Roman snail ( Helix pomatia ). The umbilicus of the Roman snail is still z. Sometimes open, closed in the case of the Podolian Roman snail. The mouth of the Podolian Roman snail is rather rounded, and that of the Roman snail is highly elliptical. The edge of the mouth of the Podolian Roman snail is only slightly expanded and covered with a thin lip on the inside. In the Roman snail, the edge of the mouth in the lower part of the mouth is strongly turned over and provided with a thick lip on the inside.
Geographical occurrence, habitat and way of life
The Podolian Roman snail lives on meadows and scrubland on warm slopes in the hilly country. It comes in Eastern Europe of about Krakow in Poland , eastern Slovakia and eastern Hungary to the west, in the south to about northern Serbia and southern Romania , to the east in the Ukraine to the east up to the region Kiev and in the north in Belarus to Brest ago .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ W. Kobelt: Iconography of the land and freshwater mollusks with excellent consideration of the European species not yet shown by E. A, Rossmässler continued by Dr. W. Kobelt. 4th volume. CW Kreidel's Verlag, Wiesbaden 1876.
literature
- Rosina Fechter, Gerhard Falkner: Mollusks. 287 pp., Mosaik-Verlag, Munich 1990 (Steinbach's Nature Guide 10), ISBN 3-570-03414-3 .
- Michael P. Kerney, RAD Cameron & Jürgen H. Jungbluth: The land snails of Northern and Central Europe. 384 pp., Paul Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-490-17918-8 .
- Francisco W. Welter-Schultes: European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification = identification book for European land and freshwater mollusks. A1-A3 S., 679 S., Q1-Q78 S., Planet Poster Ed., Göttingen 2012, ISBN 3-933922-75-5 , ISBN 978-3-933922-75-5 .
On-line
Web links
- Helix lutescens inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Pall-Gergely, B., 2010. Retrieved February 13, 2014.