Arthropods (Sep 2016)

First record of terrestrial snail Eobania vermiculata (O.F. Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) from Basrah areas, Iraq

  • Khaled K. S. Al-Khafaji,
  • Abtsam M. Abud-Sahab,
  • Najim M. Aziz

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. 125 – 129

Abstract

Read online

Specimens of the terrestrial gastropod Eobania vermiculata (O.F. Müller, 1774) were collected from two locations (Hareerregion and Al-Khoraregion) in Basrah city, Iraq, during the period from March 2015 to April 2016. Some notes on the morphological features of this species and photographs were provided to confirm the identification of the snail. The results found that it is the first record of this land snail E.vermiculata in Basrah city.

Keywords