Euconulus alderi

Euconulus alderi is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails.

Euconulus alderi
Shell of Euconulus alderi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Gastrodontoidea
Family:	Euconulidae
Genus:	Euconulus
Species:	E. alderi
Binomial name
Euconulus alderi Davies, 1979
Synonyms
Euconulus (Euconulus) alderi (Gray, 1840) Euconulus (Euconulus) praticola (Reinhardt, 1883)· accepted, alternate representation Euconulus praticola (Reinhardt, 1883) (junior synonym) Helix fulva var. alderi Gray, 1840 Hyalina (Conulus) praticola Reinhardt, 1883

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

• Great Britain
• Ireland
• France
• Sweden
• the USA

References

• In Michigan: [1]
• USDA Forest Service info: [2]
• Reinhardt, O. (1883). Über die von den Herren Gebrüder Krause auf ihrer Reise gesammelten Pupa-, Hyalina- und Vallonia-Arten. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1883: 37-43. Berlin.
• nvertEBase. (2018). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase (InvertEBase.org) project.

External links

• Euconulus alderi at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
• Gray J.E. (1840). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands by W. Turton. A new edition. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. i-ix, 1-324, plates 1-12
• Horsáková, V., Nekola, J. C. & Horsák, M. (2020). Integrative taxonomic consideration of the Holarctic Euconulus fulvus group of land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Systematics and Biodiversity. 1-19.