Azeca goodalli

Azeca goodalli is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlicopidae.

Azeca goodalli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Azecidae
Genus:	Azeca
Species:	A. goodalli
Binomial name
Azeca goodalli (Férussac, 1821)
Synonyms
Azeca tridens (Pulteney, 1799) (Original name suppressed by Opinion 335) Turbo tridens Pulteney, 1799 Helix (Cochlodonta) goodalli Férussac, 1821

This is the only still existent species in the genus Azeca.

Distribution

This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands in Western Europe to Central Europe, including:

• Great Britain
• Other areas

References

• Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
• Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D. & Jungbluth, J-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde, 384 pp., 24 plates. [Summer or later]. Hamburg / Berlin (Paul Parey)

External links

• Media related to Azeca goodalli at Wikimedia Commons
• Manganelli, G., Barbato, D., Pieńkowska, J. R., Benocci, A.; Lesicki, A. & Giusti, F. (2019). Unravelling the tangle of the azecid land snails: a survey on the supraspecific systematics based on comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Orthurethra). Folia Malacologica. 27(4): 253-291