Truncatella guerinii
- Water temperature20–30 °C
- Best monthsFebruary, March, and April
- How commonRare
About this species
Truncatella guerinii is a species of very small land snail that lives at the edge of the sea, a gastropod mollusk in the family Truncatellidae. This species was described in 1841 by Antonio Villa and J. Battista Villa. The type specimen for this species was collected on Réunion Island.
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Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 3 records
- February: 4 records
- March: 6 records
- April: 4 records
- May: 2 records
- June: 2 records
- July: 2 records
- August: 4 records
- September: 2 records
- October: 2 records
- November: 2 records
- December: 4 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 20–30 °C
Names and classification
Names in 4 more languages
- Japanese
- クビキレガイ
- Korean
- 목주림고둥
- Thai
- หอยยอดหัก
- Simplified Chinese
- 斷殼蝸牛
Other scientific names: Truncatella (Taheitia) amamiensis, Truncatella aurantia, Truncatella concinna, Truncatella cristata, Truncatella fasciata, Truncatella ferruginea, Truncatella pacifica, Truncatella valida, Truncatella vitiana, Truncatella yorkensis
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 195 open-data records from 1931 to 2014.
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