Xeroplexa scabiosula

Xeroplexa scabiosula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.^{[1] [2]}

Xeroplexa scabiosula
Apertural view of the shell of Xeroplexa scabiosula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Geomitridae
Genus:	Xeroplexa
Species:	X. scabiosula
Binomial name
Xeroplexa scabiosula (Locard, 1899)
Synonyms
Candidula scabiosula (Locard, 1899) Helix scabiosula Locard, 1899 (original combination)

Although this species was named by Locard (1899), it was treated as synonym of X. belemensis by Gittenberger (1993).^[3][4]

Description

Shells very similar to those of X. arrabidensis and X. belemensis, with a relatively large umbilicus, but shell breadth smaller at maturity and ribs on dorsal surface of body whorl less developed (absent or very weak).^[3]

Xeroplexa scabiosula Mocarapacho, Faro (Portugal). Scale bar 0.5 cm.

Distribution

Endemic to Portugal (western Iberian Peninsula), where restricted to limestone districts of central Algarve.