Xerocrassa picardi explained

Xerocrassa picardi was a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.^[1]

This species was endemic to Israel.

Conservation status

In the 1996 IUCN Red list,^[2] the species was listed as extinct or locally extinct.

According to the Mienis (2003),^[3] in 2003 the species was at the edge of extinction.

Further reading

• Bar Z. 1978. Trochoidea picardi in western Galilee. Levantina 13: 32–134.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa picardi (F. Haas, 1933). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1262257 on 2022-08-06
2. Heller, J. . 1996 . Xerocrassa picardi . 1996 . e.T22248A9367794 . 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22248A9367794.en . 16 November 2021.
3. Mienis H. K. 2003. Xerocrassa davidiana picardi: a terrestrial snail on the brink of extinction in Israel. Tentacle No. 11—January 2003: 10-11.