First land snail records from Gebel Elba in southeastern Egypt — at the border between the Palaearctic and Ethiopian regions

2017/01/16 by Reham Fathey Ali, Bernhard Hausdorf · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Mollusks and Parasites Studies #Botany and Plant Ecology Studies #Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology

paper · pdf · doi:10.15560/13.1.2038

openalex publication_date 2017/01/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

A first land snail survey in the Gebel Elba massif in southeastern Egypt revealed the occurrence of just two taxa, Pupoides coenopictus and a second pupilloid species, probably a Truncatellina species.

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• List of non-marine molluscs of Egypt [wikipedia]

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