Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Vallonia suevica (Vallonia suevica), recorded as Endangered
Vallonia suevica (Vallonia suevica). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Vallonia suevica

Vallonia suevica

Vallonia suevica is a land snail in the family Valloniidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Endangered.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Vallonia suevica
Taxonomy
Gastropoda · Stylommatophora · Valloniidae · Vallonia

The land snail

These are the familiar land snails and slugs: air-breathing gastropods with a lung, not a gill.

Gastropods are snails and slugs. The animal is the soft body; the shell, when present, is grown, not worn like a stone.

Range and habitat

No country pin is stored for Vallonia suevica on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet

Snails move on a single foot and feed with a rasping tongue. Island and spring species rarely recolonise once the site is emptied.

In crisis

Vallonia suevica is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Vallonia suevica — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q5224962. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Vallonia suevica?
Vallonia suevica is a land snail in the family Valloniidae (order Stylommatophora).
What is the conservation status of Vallonia suevica?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Vallonia suevica. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Vallonia suevica live?
The distribution of this species includes Germany and Luxembourg.
Why is Vallonia suevica in crisis?
It is Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Vallonia suevica?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Vallonia suevica a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.