Xeroplexa setubalensis

Xeroplexa setubalensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.

[2][3] The taxa was previously placed within the genus Candidula until a molecular phylogenetic study revealed its current status.

[2] This taxon is the type species of the genus Xeroplexa.

[4] X. setubalensis is endemic to the central coast of Portugal (western Iberian Peninsula).

[5] The subspecies Xeroplexa setubalensis amanda (Bourguignat, 1864) occurs off Oran, Algeria.

Xeroplexa setubalensis Serra da Arrábida , Setúbal ( Portugal ). Scale bar 0.5 cm.
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