Elona quimperiana
| Escargot de Quimper | |
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| 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: | Elonidae |
| Genus: |
Elona H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 |
| Species: | E. quimperiana |
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Elona quimperiana (Férussac, 1821) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Helix quimperiana Férussac, 1821 |
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Helix quimperiana Férussac, 1821
Elona quimperiana, common name the escargot de Quimper ("Quimper snail"), is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Elonidae.
Elona is a monotypic genus, i.e. it contains only one species, Elona quimperiana. The specific name comes from the city of Quimper in Brittany, France.
This snail is mentioned in annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive.
Elona quimperiana was originally described (under the name Helix quimperiana) by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac in 1821.
Férussac's original text (the type description) reads in the French language as follows:
α) Nobis. pl. LXXVI (par erreur LXVI), fig. 2.
Habit. Les bords de Briec l'Odet, près Quimper en Bretagne. Elle a été découverte par MrsDe Kermovan et Bonnemaison; Comm. Desmarest.
Which means in English:
"Habitat: Margin of Briec (Briec-de-l'Odet) near Quimper in Brittany. It was found by Messieurs De Kermovan and Bonnemaison."
The shell is umbilicate and planorboid in shape. The spire is slightly concave. The periphery is broadly rounded, corneous with a few varicoid white stripes. The shell has five or six whorls.
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