Cochlodina laminata
| Cochlodina laminata | |
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| 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 |
| 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
- ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited July 7, 2007.
- ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
- ↑ Animalbase (Welter-Schultes)
- ↑ 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.
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- Cochlodina laminata at Animalbase taxonomy,short description (including diagnosis), distribution, biology,status (threats), images
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