Gittenbergeria turriplana
| Gittenbergeria turriplana | |
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| shells of Gittenbergeria turriplana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Trissexodontidae |
| Genus: | Gittenbergeria |
| Species: | G. turriplana |
| Binomial name | |
| Gittenbergeria turriplana (Morelet, 1845)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gittenbergeria turriplana of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trissexodontidae.[3][4][5]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Algarve, southern Portugal.[6] It is frequent species in Algarve and locally very common.[6]
Description
The shell is brown with a characterictic microsculpture, depressed with a strong keel.[6] The first whorls are almost flat.[6] The aperture is narrow.[6] Margin reflected and turned outward.[6] There are two teeth on the lower edge corresponding to 2 conspicuous depressions on the outer shell.[6] The umbilicus is open and excentric.[6]
The width of the shell is 12–14 mm.[6] The height of the shell is 5–6 mm.[6]
Animal is almost black with a lighter foot, upper tentacles very long.[6]
Ecology
It lives in low altitudes on calcareous substrate, close to the coast.[6] It is frequent at old walls and in old gardens and parks in cities, also in shrublands and cultivated areas.[6]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[6]
- ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Gittenbergeri turriplana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ↑ Morelet A. (1845). Description des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du Portugal. pp. [1-3], I-VII, 1-116, Pl. I-XIV. Paris. (Bailliere). page 59, Plate 6, fig. 3.
- ↑ Gittenbergeri turriplana. Fauna Europaea, last update 27 January 2011, accessed 12 May 2011.
- ↑ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ↑ Prieto C. E., Puente A. I, Altonaga K. & Gomez J. (1993). "Genital morphology of Caracolina lenticula (Michaud, 1831), with a new proposal of classification of helicodontoid genera (Pulmonata: Hygromioidea)". Malacologia 35(1): 63-77. page 73-74.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Species summary for Gittenbergeria turriplana". AnimalBase, last modified 31 January 2010, accessed 12 May 2011.