Paralaoma compar

Paralaoma compar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Punctidae
Genus: Paralaoma
Species:
P. compar
Binomial name
Paralaoma compar
Location of Lord Howe Island

Paralaoma compar, also known as the ribbed pinhead snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.[2]

Description

The depressedly turbinate shell of the mature snail is 1.2–1.3 mm in height, with a diameter of 2.4–2.5 mm, and a low spire. It is deep golden-brown in colour. The whorls are rounded, with impressed sutures and moderately closely spaced radial ribs. It has a roundedly lunate aperture and moderately widely open umbilicus. [2]

Distribution and habitat

The snail is found on the summits and slopes of the southern mountains of the island.[2]

References

  1. ^ Iredale, Tom (1944). "The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island". Australian Zoologist. 10 (3): 299–334.
  2. ^ a b c Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.

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