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

Bernhard Hausdorf; Reham Ali

doi:10.15560/13.1.2038

Check List 13(1): e19640, doi: 10.15560/13.1.2038

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

Reham Fathey Ali, Bernhard Hausdorf

Corresponding author: Bernhard Hausdorf ( hausdorf@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de )

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Citation: Hausdorf B, Ali R (2017) First land snail records from Gebel Elba in southeastern Egypt — at the border between the Palaearctic and Ethiopian regions. Check List 13(1): 2038. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.1.2038

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.

Keywords

Mollusca; Gastropoda; Gebel Elba; Egypt; Pupoides; Truncatellina