Noricella oreinos | |
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A live individual of Noricella oreinos | |
Conservation status
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Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Mollusca
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Class: | Gastropoda
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea
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Family: | Hygromiidae
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Genus: | Noricella
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Species: | N. oreinos
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Binomial name | |
Noricella oreinos (A. J. Wagner, 1915)
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Noricella oreinos is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.[2] This species is endemic to Austria.
This hairy-shelled snail was once confused with Trochulus hispidus, which it superficially resembles and therefore assigned to the genus Trochulus. Later on was moved to an own Genus Noricella.[3] Its former subspecies Noricella oreinos scheerpeltzi was elevated to species level [4] and therefore the Genus Noricella consists of two species now.