Oxychilus draparnaudi is a species of small land snail

Snail

Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

, a terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae

Oxychilidae

Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.- Distribution :...

, the glass snails.

Shell description

Oxychilus draparnaudi is large for a zonitid glass snail, with a shell of about 14 mm in maximum dimension. The shell is glossy and is a translucent yellowish-brown in color, somewhat whiter underneath.

Anatomy

The visible soft parts of the animal are a very unusual strong dark blue, mixed with grey.

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

• Czech Republic
• Slovakia
• Great Britain
• Ireland
• and other areas