Xerocrassa seetzeni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Xerocrassa seetzeni (L. Pfeiffer, 1847). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1262091 on 2022-08-11
Distribution Xerocrassa seetzeni is native to the Near East region, from Syria to northern Saudi Arabia.
In the area of the Negev desert in Israel, investigated by Yom-Tov (1970), Xerocrassa seetzeni was the most common snail species.Yom-Tov Y. 1970. The Effect of Predation on Population Densities of Some Desert Snails. Ecology, September 1970, Vol. 51, No. 5: pp. 907-911.
References
Forcart, L. (1976). Die Cochlicellinae und Helicellinae von Palästina und Sinai. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 106 (4/6): 123-189. Frankfurt am Main Neubert, E. (1998). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial and freshwater molluscs of the Arabian Peninsula with descriptions of new species. Fauna of Arabia. 17: 333-461.
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Pfeiffer, L. (1847). Diagnosen neuer Heliceen. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. Cassel. 4 (1): 12-16 Mousson, A. (1861). Coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles recueillies par M. le Prof. J.R. Roth dans son dernier voyage en Orient. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich, 6 (1): 1-34; 6 (2): 124-156. Zürich. Charpentier, J. de. (1847). Uebersicht der durch Herrn Edm. Boissier von einer Reise nach Palästina mit zurückgebrachten Conchylien. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 4 (9): 129-144. Cassel Germain, L. (1911). Note préliminaire sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis par M. H. Gadeau de Kerville pendant son voyage en Syrie. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 17(1): 27-32 Neubert, E.; Amr, Z. S.; Waitzbauer, W.; Al Talafha, H. (2015). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial gastropods of Jordan (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 144(2): 169-238.