Xerocrassa cretica 02

Description:

Summary Bouchet & Rocroi (2005): Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Subregnum: Eumetazoa • Cladus: Bilateria • Superphylum: Protostomia • Phylum: Mollusca • Classis: Gastropoda • Cladus: Heterobranchia • Cladus: Pulmonata • Cladus: Eupulmonata • Cladus: Stylommatophora • Cladus: Sigmurethra • Superfamilia: Helicoidea • Familia: Hygromiidae • Genus: Xerocrassa • Species: Xerocrassa cretica (Férussac, 1821) Description: English: Xerocrassa cretica (Férussac, 1821), "coastal form"; shells of this species can reach a diameter of up to 2,3 cm, but according to Animalbase "..in some populations in coastal habitats shells remain very small, with only few keeled whorls, they look like a completely different species"; diameter 0.7 cm; Originating from the Old Agora Kos City, Kos, Greece; Shell of own collection, therefore not geocoded. Deutsch: Xerocrassa cretica (Férussac, 1821) "Küstenform"; Durchmesser 0,7 cm; Herkunft: Alte Agora Kos-Stadt, Kos, Griechenland. Date: 22 May 2019. Source: Own work. Author: H. Zell. To the gallery of shells[edit].