- Source: Xerocrassa heraklea
Xerocrassa heraklea is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.
Distribution
This species is endemic to Greece, where it occurs in northern Crete, from Tombrouk, east of Iraklion, in the west to the Lasithi Plateau in the east.
See also
List of non-marine molluscs of Greece
References
Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.
Further reading
Sauer, J. (2011). Systematics and Evolution of the Helicellinae (Gastropoda:Helicoidea) from Crete, particularly the Xerocrassa radiation (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). University of Hamburg.
