Cernuella neglecta

Cernuella neglecta
	Cernuella neglecta shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Geomitridae
Genus:	Cernuella
Species:	C. neglecta
Binomial name
	Cernuella neglecta; (Draparnaud, 1805)
Synonyms
	Cernuella (Xerocincta) neglecta (Draparnaud, 1805)· accepted, alternate representation; Helix neglecta Draparnaud, 1805 (original combination); Xerocincta neglecta (Draparnaud, 1805) (superseded combination);

Cernuella neglecta, the dune snail, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Geomitridae.

This is a small snail with a white and brown striped shell. It lives on chalk banks.

Distribution and conservation status

This species is not listed in IUCN red list - not evaluated (NE)[1]

This snail lives in European countries and islands including:

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 9 January 2008.
Anderson, Roy (2005). "An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland". Journal of Conchology. 38 (6): 607–637. ISSN 1753-2205. Retrieved 30 June 2012.

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