Harmozica ravergiensis is a species of an air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
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| Apertual view of a shell of Harmozica ravergiensis. Width of the shell is 12 mm. | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Subgenus: | Harmozica
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| Species: | H. ravergiensis
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| Harmozica ravergiensis | |
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Helix ravergiensis Férussac, 1835 | |
This is the type species of the genus Harmozica.[4]
The specific name ravergiensis is in honour of Mr. M. Ravergie.[2]
Distribution edit
The distribution of this species is Caucasian[5] and countries include:
- probably non-native in Ukraine.[5]
- southeastern Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast since 2006[5]
- western Ukraine[5]
- Armenia[1]
- Azerbaijan[1]
- Georgia[1]
- Russia[1]
The type locality is "Caucasus".[3]
Description edit
The shape of the shell of Harmozica ravergiensis is globose.
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References edit
- ^ a b c d e "Caucasian Land Snails" Archived 2014-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. accessed May 2, 2014.
- ^ a b Férussac A. E. J. P. J. F. d'Audebard de (1835). "Novæ species aut minus cognitæ e Chondri, Bulimi, Peristomæ Helicisque generibus præcipue Rossiæ meridionalis; auctore J. Krynicki, Prof." In-8. de 45 p. av. 5 pl. color. (Extrait du Bullet. de la Société impér. des natural. de Moscou, tome VI.). Bulletin Zoologique 1835: 19-21. page 21.
- ^ a b "Species taxon summary ravergiensis Férussac, 1835 described in Helix". AnimalBase, accessed May 2, 2014.
- ^ "Genus taxon summary for Harmozica". AnimalBase, accessed May 2, 2014.
- ^ a b c d Balashov I. A., Kramarenko S. S., Zhukov A. V., Shklyaruk A. N., Baidashnikov A. A. & Vasyliuk A. V. (2013). "Contribution to the knowledge of terrestrial molluscs in southeastern Ukraine". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca 12: 62-69. PDF.
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