Cernuella virgata (Da Costa, 1778)

Maroulis, Leonidas, Vardinoyannis, Katerina, Karakasi, Danae, Proios, Konstantinos, Mylonas, Moissis & Triantis, Kostas A, 2022, The land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of Kea island (Aegean, Greece), Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 87720-87720 : 87720

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scientific name

Cernuella virgata (Da Costa, 1778)
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Cernuella virgata (Da Costa, 1778)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Cernuella virgata (Da Costa, 1778); order: Stylommatophora; family: Geomitridae; Location: continent: Europe; islandGroup: Cyclades; island: Kea; country: Greece; countryCode: GR; Identification: identifiedBy: M Mylonas; Event: eventDate: 4/11-8/11/2021; Record Level: institutionCode: NHMC

Notes

Xerocrassa cretica reported by Martens 1889 and Fuchs and Käufel 1934 is a misidentification of Cernuella virgata , which is very common on the island and some of its populations share shell characteristics with Xerocrassa cretica .