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New records confirm three terrestrial and one freshwater snail in northwestern and western Saudi Arabia

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: New records of snails in underexplored regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reveal new distributions of three terrestrial taxa and one species of freshwater snail. Pupoides coenopictus (Hutton, 1834) is reported for the first time in Tabuk Province. Live populations of Arabivitrina jansseni Neubert, 1998 and shells of Levantina simensi Neubert, 1998 are reported from Makkah Province. Two oases in Madinah Province were found to harbor the freshwater snail, Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774). All snails and empty shells were imaged, and their geographic data recorded herein.

Source: Folia Malacologica

DOI: 10.12657/folmal.033.009

Authors: Adrienne Jochum, Eike Neubert

Institutions: Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M, Natural History Museum of Bern

Language: English

Topic: Mollusks and Parasites Studies

Subfield: Insect Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4410128366

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