Cernuella neglecta, the dune snail, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Geomitridae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Genus: | Cernuella |
| Species: | C. neglecta
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| Cernuella neglecta (Draparnaud, 1805)
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This is a small snail with a white and brown striped shell. It lives on chalk banks.
Distribution and conservation status
editThis species is not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE)[2]
This snail lives in European countries and islands including:
- Czech Republic - Bohemia
- Great Britain - extinct[3]
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Spain
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Cernuella neglecta (Draparnaud, 1805). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050098 on 2022-07-23
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 9 January 2008.
- ^ Anderson, Roy (2005). "An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland". Journal of Conchology. 38 (6): 607–637. ISSN 1753-2205. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
- Haas, F. (1936). Neue und kritische Arten der Heliciden-Unterfamilie Helicellinae (Moll. Gastr. Pulm.). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 114 (11/12): 297–305. Leipzig
- Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
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Media related to Cernuella neglecta at Wikimedia Commons- Series of life images at: [1]
- Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. (1805). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. 2 pp. (Avertissement a sa Majesté l'Impératrice), 2 pp. Rapport, i-viii (Préface), 1-164, pl. 1-13, 1 p. Errata
