Global InformationXerogyra spadae information
| Xerogyra spadae | |
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| Apertural view of the shell of Xerogyra spadae | |
Conservation status
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 Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Genus: | Xerogyra |
| Species: | X. spadae
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| Binomial name | |
| Xerogyra spadae (Calcara, 1845)[2]
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Xerogyra spadae is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.[3] [4]
The specific name spadae, "Spada's", Pietro Calcara commemorated Giovanni Jacopo Spada (1680–1774), an Italian naturalist and pioneering geologist of Verona.
- ^ von Proschwitz, T.; Falkner, M.; Falkner, G.; Hallgass , A. (2011). "Xerogyra spadae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T156311A4925317. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T156311A4925317.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ (in Italian) Calcara P. (1845). Cenno sui molluschi viventi e fossili della Sicilia da servire di supplimento ed insieme di critiche osservazioni all'opera di R. A. Philippi. pp. 1–65, [1–2], Tav. I-IV [= 1–4]. Palermo. page 49, Table 3, Fig. 1.
- ^ Chueca, Luis J.; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín J.; Madeira, María José; Pfenninger, Markus (January 2018). "Molecular phylogeny of Candidula (Geomitridae) land snails inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers reveals the polyphyly of the genus". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 118: 357–368. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.022. PMID 29107619.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerogyra spadae (Calcara, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1308889 on 2022-07-28