Cerion uva
| Cerionuva | |
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| Shells of Cerion uva | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Urocoptoidea |
| Family: | Cerionidae |
| Genus: | Cerion |
| Species: | C. uva |
| Binomial name | |
| Cerion uva (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cerion uva is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cerionidae, the peanut snails. [1]
Description
Shells of Cerion uva can reach a length of 24 mm. [2] This species shows extensive and geographically variations in whorl size. [3] Moreover the shape of these shells change very much as well they grows. In the adults the shells are beehive-shaped and have an expanded outer lip. [2][4][5]
Distribution
This species is present in Curacao, in the Dutch West Indies. [6]
References
- ↑ WoRMS
- 1 2 Geerat J. Vermeij A Natural History of Shells
- ↑ Stephen Jay Gould The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
- ↑ Henry A. Pilsbry and E. G. Vanatta Catalogue of the Species of Cerion, with Descriptions of New Forms Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 48
- ↑ P.Wagenaar Hummelinck About the malacological subdivision of Curaçao; a review
- ↑ Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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