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Wikipedia / Xeroplexa intersecta

Xeroplexa intersecta, commonly known has wrinkled snail is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.

It was previously included within the genus Candidula.

This snail can be a pest species in agricultural settings.

Description

The × shell has 5 convex whorls. The aperture is simple without a lip; the aperture margin is slightly reflected near the umbilicus. The umbilicus is open and variably wide. The periostracum is whitish or yellowish with brown bands or spots and finely striated. The animal is yellowish or bluish grey with dark brown pigments. The upper tentacles are long, and the lower tentacles are very short.

Distribution

This species is known to occur within its native range in a number of Central and Western European countries and islands including:

It also lives as an introduced species in:

  • Oregon, United States

  • Colombia

  • Chile

  • New Zealand

  • Australia

References

  • Lowe, R. T. (1861). A list of shells observed or collected at Mogador and in its immediate environs, during a few days' visit to the place, in April 1859. i>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1860: 169-204

  • Barker, G. M. (1999). Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand 38: 1-254.