Escargot de Quimper
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"Elona" redirects here. For other uses, see Elona (disambiguation).
Elona quimperiana, common name the escargot de Quimper ("Quimper snail"), is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Elonidae.
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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Genus: | Elona |
Species: | E. quimperiana |
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Helix quimperiana Férussac, 1821 |
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Elona is a monotypic genus, i.e. it contains only one species, Elona quimperiana. The specific name comes from the city of Quimper in Brittany, France.[4]
This snail is mentioned in annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive.