Cochlodina orthostoma

Cochlodina orthostoma
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Clausilioidea
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Alopiinae
Tribe: Cochlodinini
Genus: Cochlodina
Species: C. orthostoma
Binomial name
Cochlodina orthostoma
(Menke, 1828)

Cochlodina orthostoma is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Distribution

Its native distribution is Central European and Eastern European. It occurs in:

Description

The weight of the adult live snail is about 74.7±5.3 mg.[3]

Ecology

The habitat of this species is woodland.

References

  1. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. cited October 26 2007.
  2. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  3. Boch S., Prati D., Werth S., Rüetschi J. & Fischer M. (2011). "Lichen Endozoochory by Snails". PLoS ONE 6(4): e18770. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018770.


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