<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xml>
<records>
<record>
<title>First record of terrestrial snail Eobania vermiculata (O.F. Muller, 1774) 
(Gastropoda: Helicidae) from Basrah areas, Iraq</title>
<authors>
<author>Khaled K. S. Al-Khafaji</author>
<author>Abtsam M. Abud-Sahab</author>
<author>Najim M. Aziz</author>
</authors>
<affiliations>
<affiliation>
Marine Biology Dep. Marine Science Centre, University of Basrah, Iraq
</affiliation>
</affiliations>
<journal>Arthropods</journal>
<issn>ISSN 2224-4255</issn>
<homepage>http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/arthropods/online-version.asp</homepage>
<year>2016</year>
<volume>5</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<startpage>125</startpage>
<endpage>129</endpage>
<publisher>International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences</publisher>
<location>Hong Kong</location>
<date>
<received>19 May 2016</received>
<accepted>19 June 2016</accepted>
<published>1 September 2016</published>
</date>
<keywords>
<keyword>first record</keyword>
<keyword>terrestrial gastropod</keyword>
<keyword>Eobania vermiculata</keyword>
</keywords>
<abstract>
Specimens of the terrestrial gastropod Eobania vermiculata (O.F. Muller, 1774) were collected from two locations (Hareerregion and Al-Khoraregion) in Basrah city, Iraq, during the period from March 2015 to April 2016. Some notes on the morphological features of this species and photographs were provided to confirm the identification of the snail. The results found that it is the first record of this land snail E.vermiculata in Basrah city.
</abstract>
<doi>DOI 10.0000/issn-2224-4255-arthropods-2016-v5-0013</doi>
<url>http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/arthropods/articles/2016-5(3)/first-record-of-terrestrial-snail-Eobania-vermiculata.pdf</url>
</record>
</records>
</xml>
