Anostoma baileyi
| Anostoma baileyi | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Odontostomidae |
| Genus: | Anostoma |
| Species: | A. baileyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Anostoma baileyi Solem, 1956[1] | |
Anostoma baileyi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in Brazil.[2]
Shell description
The shell has 5-5.25 whorls.[1]
The width of adult shells is 29.6-32.3 mm, the height is 15.1-17.2 mm.[1]
The main differences between the shell of this species and the similar shell of Anostoma rossi are that this shell has no spiral sculpture and the aperture is more elongated.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Solem A. 1956. Non marine Mollusca from Salobra, Mato Grosso, Brazil and a collection of South Brazilian Artemon. Notulae Naturae, Philadelphia, 287: 1-14. (googlebooks)
- ↑ Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae). Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)
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