Aegopinella epipedostoma

Aegopinella epipedostoma
Shell of Aegopinella epipedostoma (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Gastrodontidae
Genus: Aegopinella
Species:
A. epipedostoma
Binomial name
Aegopinella epipedostoma
(Fagot, 1879)
Synonyms[1]
  • Aegopinella (Politenella) epipedostoma (Fagot, 1879) (unaccepted subgeneric classification)
  • Zonites epipedostoma Fagot, 1879 (original combination)

Aegopinella epipedostoma is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae, the glass snails. [1]

Subspecies
  • Aegopinella epipedostoma epipedostoma (Fagot, 1879)
  • Aegopinella epipedostoma iuncta Hudec, 1964

Description

The diameter of the shell attains 10 mm (0.4 in), its height 5 mm (0.2 in).

(Original description in Latin) The shell is slightly convex and depressed with a broad umbilicus and barely noticeable striations. It is convex above and compressed below. The spire is slightly convex with a minute, obtuse apex. There are five slightly convex and depressed whorls, with the first being minute and the others growing more rapidly. They are separated by an impressed suture. The body whorl is larger, depressed-rounded, and the base is somewhat widened at the aperture, which is hardly tectiform and is not descending. The aperture has a lunate shape and is ovate-oblong and scarcely compressed. The peristome is straight, simple and acute. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Czech Republic, Ukraine[3] and other countries (Poland, France, Spain).

References

  1. ^ a b WoRMS. "Aegopinella epipedostoma(Fagot, 1879)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
  2. ^ Fagot, P. (1879). Mollusques quaternaires des environs de Toulouse et de Villefranche (Haute-Garonne). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse. 13: 282-304 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  • Kerney, M.P., Cameron, R.A.D. & Jungbluth, J-H. (1983). Die Landschnecken Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Biologen und Naturfreunde, 384 pp., 24 plates. [Summer or later]. Hamburg / Berlin (Paul Parey).
  • Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates. [June] [= Pensoft Series Faunistica No 87].
  • Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017


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