See text Euchondrus is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Enidae.

The snails in this genus are of levantine distribution, which includes Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Israel and Jordan.

This snail species lives in open habitats, under limestone rocks in the desert.

[3] Their grazing resulting in the weathering of the stones, and the subsequent formation of soil.

[3] They have a significant effect on the region: the total population of snails is estimated to process between 0.7 and 1.1 metric ton per hectare per year of limestone in the Negev desert.