Vallonia excentrica, common name the eccentric vallonia, is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Valloniidae.[1]
| Vallonia excentrica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Valloniidae |
| Genus: | Vallonia |
| Species: | V. excentrica
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| Binomial name | |
| Vallonia excentrica Sterki, 1893
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Vallonia (Vallonia) excentrica Sterki, 1893 · | |
Distribution edit
This species has a Holarctic distribution and has been introduced elsewhere. Its occurrence includes:
- Africa
- Europe
- Australia
- Introduced to south-eastern Australia as well as Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.[4]
- North America
- British Columbia[5] in Canada
References edit
- ^ Marshall, B. (2014). Vallonia excentrica Sterki, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=819970 on 2014-11-06
- ^ Ashmole P. & Ashmole M. 2000. St Helena and Ascension Island: a natural history. Anthony Helson, Oswestry.
- ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
- ^ Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.
- ^ Robert G. Forsyth. Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia Family Valloniidae. Accessed 25 April 2009.
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
- Barker, G. M. (1999). Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand 38: 1-254.
- 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.
- Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates.
- Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls.
External links edit
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- Pilsbry, H. A. (1892-1893). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 8: Helicidae, vol. 6. pp 1-314, pls 1-58. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences.
- Sterki, V. (1905). November snails. The Nautilus. 19(8): 96