Alcadia spectabilis

Alcadia spectabilis
Shell of Alcadia spectabilis (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Alcadia
Species:
A. spectabilis
Binomial name
Alcadia spectabilis
(Pfeiffer, 1858)
Synonyms[1]
  • Alcadia (Idesa) spectabilis (L. Pfeiffer, 1858) alternative representation
  • Alcadia (Leialcadia) bellula (L. Pfeiffer, 1859)
  • Alcadia (Leialcadia) bellula bellissima A. J. Wagner, 1908
  • Alcadia (Leialcadia) bellula leptochila A. J. Wagner, 1908
  • Alcadia (Leialcadia) spectabilis (L. Pfeiffer, 1858)
  • Alcadia (Leialcadia) spectabilis venusta A. J. Wagner, 1908 junior subjective synonym
  • Helicina (Pachystoma) bellula L. Pfeffer,i 1859 superseded combination
  • Helicina bellula L. Pfeiffer, 1859 junior subjective synonym
  • Helicina bellula var. peripherica L. Pfeiffer, 1859
  • Helicina bellula var. suturalis L. Pfeiffer, 1859
  • Helicina bellula var. yunquensis L. Pfeiffer, 1865
  • Helicina spectabilis L. Pfeiffer, 1858 (original combination)

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

Description

The height of the shell attains 6 mm (0.24 in), its greatest diameter 8 mm (0.31 in).[citation needed]

(Original description in Latin) The conical-globose shell is somewhat thin, smooth and shiny. It is yellow with a darker or blood-red peripheral band, or pink with a blood-red band. The spire is convex-conical with a sharp, dark blood-red apex. It has 5 slightly convex whorls, with the body whorl rounded and scarcely equal to the spire. The columella is short, receding, slightly toothed at the base, and emits a circumscribed callus. The aperture is oblique and broadly semi-oval. The peristome is thin and expanded, with the basal margin forming a slightly right angle with the columella. The operculum is transparent, purplish, and pale on the columellar side.[2]

Distribution

This species lives in Cuba.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Alcadia spectabilis (L. Pfeiffer, 1858). 7 August 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ Pfeiffer, L. (1858). "Zur Molluskenfauna von Cuba". Malakozoologische Blätter. 5 (2): 37–49. Retrieved 7 August 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ Espinosa, J. A.; Robinson, D. G (2021). "Annotated checklist of the terrestrial mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Hispaniola Island". Novitates Caribaea. 17: 71–146.

Further reading

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  • Richling, I.; Glaubrecht, M. (2008). "The types of Neotropical Helicinidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neritopsina) in the Malacological Collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: an annotated catalogue, with emphasis on Cuban land snails". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 84 (2): 265–310.
  • Breure, A.S.H. (1984). "Survey of the land Mollusca of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. In: T. van der Hammen & P. M. Ruiz (eds.). La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia), Transecto Buritaca-La Cumbre". Studies on Tropical Andean Ecosystems. 2: 487–500.
  • Pfeiffer, L. (1859). "Zur Molluskenfauna von Cuba". Malakozoologische Blätter. 6 (3): 66–96.
  • Wagner, A.J. (1908). "Die Familie der Helicinidae". In Küster, H. C.; Kobelt, W. (eds.). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, Neue Folge. Ersten Bandes, achtzehnte Abtheilung, zweiter Theil. Nürnberg: Bauer & Rasoe.