Vallonia tenuilabris
| Vallonia tenuilabris | |
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| Drawing: three views of a shell of Vallonia tenuilabris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Valloniidae |
| Genus: | Vallonia |
| Species: | V. tenuilabris |
| Binomial name | |
| Vallonia tenuilabris (A. Braun, 1843) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Helix pulchella var. tenuilabris Braun, 1843 | |
Vallonia tenuilabris is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Valloniidae.
Distribution
Vallonia tenuilabris was described for the first time in the loess of Wiesbaden, Germany.[2] It is only in the past few decades that its recent occurrence in Central Asia has been recognised.[2]
Recent distribution of Vallonia tenuilabris include:
- Central Asian highlands (Altai Mountains, Tien Shan, Pamir Mountains and Himalayas)[2]
- Northern Mongolia[2]
- from the Baikal region into Northern Asia,[2] from Siberia to Altai, Karakorum and Yenisei.[1]
- North-eastern and north China including Xinjiang and Tibet.[1]
Description
The width of the shell is 3 mm.[1] The height of the shell is 1.8 mm.[1]
Ecology
Vallonia tenuilabris is adapted to the cold.[2]
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference[2]
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Species summary for Vallonia tenuilabris". Animalbase, last modified 27 July 2008, accessed 1 November 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Meng S. & Hoffmann M. H. (2009). "Pupilla loessica Ložek 1954 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae) – “A Living Fossil” in Central Asia?". Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart Quaternary Science Journal 58(1): 55–69. doi:10.3285/eg.58.1.03.
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