Xerocrassa seetzeni

Xerocrassa seetzeni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.^[4]

Xerocrassa seetzeni
Shell of Xerocrassa seetzeni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Geomitridae
Genus:	Xerocrassa
Species:	X. seetzeni
Binomial name
Xerocrassa seetzeni (Pfeiffer, 1847)[1]
Synonyms
Helix seetzenii Pfeiffer, 1847[2] Helix (Euparypha) seetzeni (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) Helix (Euparypha) seetzeni var. antilibanica Germain, 1911 Helix sabaea Charpentier, 1847 (junior synonym) Helix seetzeni L. Pfeiffer, 1847 (original combination) Helix seetzeni var. avia Westerlund, 1889 (junior synonym) Helix seetzeni var. subinflata Mousson, 1861 (junior synonym) Trochoidea seetzenii (Charpentier, 1847)[3] Xerocrassa (Xerocrassa) seetzeni (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) · alternate representation

Distribution

Xerocrassa seetzeni is native to the Near East region, from Syria to northern Saudi Arabia.^[2]

In the area of the Negev desert in Israel, investigated by Yom-Tov (1970), Xerocrassa seetzeni was the most common snail species.^[3]