Cochlodina laminata

Cochlodina laminata
A live individual of Cochlodina laminata on the trunk of a tree
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Clausilioidea
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Alopiinae
Tribe: Cochlodinini
Genus: Cochlodina
Species: C. laminata
Binomial name
Cochlodina laminata
(Montagu, 1803)

Cochlodina laminata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Distribution

This species occurs in Europe, in:

Description

Like all species in the family Clausiliidae, Cochlodina laminata has a clausilium or "door". The second image shows the shape of the clausilium in this species.

The shell is brown to cherry red, nearly smooth and shiny.The parietalis is small, the columellaris is more prominent, the palatal callus is weak, the subcolumellaris is visible in an oblique view. .[3]

The weight of the adult live snail is about 137.9±5.0 mg.[4]

The clausilium of Cochlodina laminata

References

  1. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited July 7, 2007.
  2. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  3. Animalbase (Welter-Schultes)
  4. Boch S., Prati D., Werth S., Rüetschi J. & Fischer M. (2011). "Lichen Endozoochory by Snails". PLoS ONE 6(4): e18770. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018770.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cochlodina laminata.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, June 26, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.