Xeroplexa scabiosula

Xeroplexa scabiosula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.[1] Although this species was named by Locard (1899), it was treated as synonym of X. belemensis by Gittenberger (1993).[2][3]

Xeroplexa scabiosula
Apertural view of the shell of Xeroplexa scabiosula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Xeroplexa
Species:
X. scabiosula
Binomial name
Xeroplexa scabiosula
(Locard, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Candidula scabiosula (Locard, 1899)

Description

Shells very similar to those of X. arrabidensis and X. belemensis, with a relatively large umbilicus, but shell breadth smaller at maturity and ribs on dorsal surface of body whorl less developed (absent or very weak).[2]

Xeroplexa scabiosula Mocarapacho, Faro (Portugal). Scale bar 0.5 cm.

Distribution

Endemic to Portugal (western Iberian Peninsula), where restricted to limestone districts of central Algarve.

References
  1. Chueca, Luis J.; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín J.; Madeira, María José; Pfenninger, Markus (January 2018). "Molecular phylogeny of Candidula (Geomitridae) land snails inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers reveals the polyphyly of the genus". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 118: 357–368. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.022. PMID 29107619.
  2. Holyoak, David T.; Holyoak, Geraldine A. (2014). "A review of the genus Candidula in Portugal with notes on other populations in western Europe (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Hygromiidae)". Journal of Conchology. 41: 629–672.
  3. Gittenberger, Edumnd (1993). "Digging in the grave-yard of synonymy, in search of Portuguese species of Candidula Kobelt, 1871 (Mollusca: Gastropoda Pulmonata: Hygromiidae)". Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 67 (17): 283–293.
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