Showing posts with label Zonitidae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zonitidae. Show all posts

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Species spotlight VIII

Oxychilus draparnaudi (Beck, 1837)
Buskett, Malta

Today's featured species is a small to medium-sized snail characterized by a brown, glossy and rather flat and fragile shell. It inhabits damp substrates such as compost or leaf litter in gardens or the compact soil beneath stone boulders. The animal is a distinctive blue-grey and is an active predator on other snails.

Oxychilus is a highly speciose genus distributed throughout Europe and the Near East.

Pembroke, Malta
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...