About Candidula unifasciata (Poiret, 1801)
Candidula unifasciata, originally described by Poiret in 1801, is a species of air-breathing land snail. It is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk that belongs to the family Geomitridae. Four recognized subspecies of Candidula unifasciata are currently recorded: Candidula unifasciata acosmia (Bourguignat, 1882), Candidula unifasciata soosiana (H. Wagner, 1933), Candidula unifasciata unifasciata (Poiret, 1801), and Candidula unifasciata vincae (De Stefani, 1883). This species is distributed across multiple European countries and islands. The territories where it occurs include Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia; in Slovakia, this species was previously identified under the name Candidula soosiana.
