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Wrinkled Snail

Xeroplexa intersecta

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 420, February 310, March 486, April 765, May 1,103, June 1,203, July 1,287, August 1,107, September 813, October 607, November 332, December 259.
United States8,704
Alaska8,694
United Kingdom320
England295
France291
New Zealand139
Nouvelle-Aquitaine97
Germany87
Netherlands86
Denmark72

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Shell-bearingProtected by a hard shellFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumMolluscs · Mollusca
ClassGastropods · Gastropoda
OrderCommon Land Snails and Slugs · Stylommatophora
FamilyGeomitridae
GenusXeroplexa

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