Pleurodonte nigrescens

Pleurodonte nigrescens
apertural view of the shell of Pleurodonte nigrescens. The height of the shell is 11.1 mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Pleurodontidae
Genus: Pleurodonte
Species: P. nigrescens
Binomial name
Pleurodonte nigrescens
(Wood, 1828)
Synonyms[1]
  • Helix nigrescens
  • Helix (Dentellaria) nigrescens

Pleurodonte nigrescens is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae.

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Distribution

Distribution of Pleurodonte nigrescens include:

Distribution

Pleurodonte nigrescens differs from all other Dominican Pleurodonte species by the characteristic parietal tooth opposite the basal teeth in the aperture.[1] The shell can be chesnut-brown with fine axial lines or purple-black with a purple aperture.[1]

Ecology

Pleurodonte nigrescens lives in damp leaf litter on the forest floor.[1]

This species appears to prefer relatively undisturbed habitats, especially in rain forest at higher altitudes in Dominica.[1]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83