Cochlostoma
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| Cochlostoma | |
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| Cochlostoma nouleti | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
| Family: | Diplommatinidae |
| Subfamily: | Cochlostomatinae |
| Genus: | Cochlostoma Jan, 1830[1] |
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Cochlostoma is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Diplommatinidae.
Distribution
Europe[2]
Description
Mantle caves work as pulmones.[2] The operculum is horny.[2] The shell has several whorls.[2] The penis is above right feeler.[2] Sexual dimorphism is often recognisable at the shell.[2]
Ecology
All species are confined to limestone habitats.[2] They are feeding on dead plants and microflora.[2] Female lays big eggs, offspring hatches after three to six weeks.[2]
Species
The genus Cochlostoma contains over 260[citation needed] species and subspecies, including:
subgenus Cochlostoma
- Cochlostoma septemspirale (Razoumowsky, 1789)
subgenus Obscurella
- Cochlostoma salomoni Geyer, 1914
subgenus ?
- Cochlostoma canestrinii (Adami, 1876)
- Cochlostoma roseoli
- Cochlostoma montanum
- Cochlostoma philippianum
References
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