Trochulus striolatus

Trochulus striolatus
	Plate accompanying the original description by Carl Pfeiffer Helix striolatus is figure 8
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Hygromiidae
Genus:	Trochulus
Species:	T. striolatus
Binomial name
	Trochulus striolatus; (Pfeiffer, 1828)
Synonyms
	Trichia striolata

Trochulus striolatus, previously known as Trichia striolata, common name the "strawberry snail," is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae.

This species of snail uses love darts before mating.

Description[edit]

The 10–15 mm. shell is globular with a depressed, low, conical spire. The whorls are convex, with quite deep sutures. The last whorl is angled on the periphery. The colour is whitish to yellow-brown or red-brown with irregular growth lines and often a pale band on the angled periphery. The adult shell is hairless but bears scattered coarse hairs when juvenile.

Distribution[edit]

This snail is native to northwestern Europe, occurring in:

British Isles: Great Britain and Ireland
Netherlands
Slovakia

The distribution of the subspecies Trochulus striolatus danubialis is Danubian.^[2]

References[edit]

^ Pfeiffer C. 1828. Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken. Dritte Abtheilung. pp. I-VI [= 1-6], 1-84, Taf. I-VIII [= 1-8]. Weimar. (Landes-Industrie-Comptoir).
^ (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.

External links[edit]

Trochulus striolatus at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
Taxonomy at: [1]
UK Nature image of a live snail of this species

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[1] Pfeiffer C. 1828. Naturgeschichte deutscher Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken. Dritte Abtheilung. pp. I-VI [= 1-6], 1-84, Taf. I-VIII [= 1-8]. Weimar. (Landes-Industrie-Comptoir).

[2] (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.

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