Alcadia alta

Alcadia alta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Alcadia
Species:
A. alta
Binomial name
Alcadia alta
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1866)
Synonyms[1]

Helicina alta G. B. Sowerby II, 1866 (basionym)

Alcadia alta is a species of an operculate land snail, terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae. [1]

Description

(Original description) This species is small and pellucidid. [2]

The height of the shell attains 5.3 mm. [3]

Distribution

This species occurs on Puerto Rico.

References

  1. ^ a b Alcadia alta (G. B. Sowerby II, 1866). 25 July 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ Sowerby, G.B. II (1866). Second monograph of the genus Helicina, including the genera Trochatella, Lucidella, Helicina, Schiascheila [sic!] and Alcadia, of authors. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells (3 ed.). London: privately published. pp. 277–302. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  3. ^ WMSDB: Alcadia alta
  • Eichhorst, T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume two. Harxheim: Conchbooks. pp. 695–1366.
  • van der Schalie, H. (1948). The land and fresh-water mollusks of Puerto Rico (70 ed.). Ann Arbor: Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Miscellaneous Publications. pp. 1–134.
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