Labyrinthus umbrus

Labyrinthus umbrus
Shells of Labyrinthus umbrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Pleurodontidae
Genus: Labyrinthus
Species: L. umbrus
Binomial name
Labyrinthus umbrus
Thompson, 1957[1]

Labyrinthus umbrus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae.

This taxon was described as Labyrinthus umbrus by Fred Gilbert Thompson from Rancho Grande, Aragua in Venezuela in 1957.[1]

Alan Solem considered this taxon as a subspecies Labyrinthus leucodon umbrus in 1966.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Thompson F. G. (20 Nevemeber) 1957. A Collection of mollusks from Northern Venezuela. Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, number 591: 1-10. Labyrinthus umbrus is on the page 6-7.
  2. 1 2 Solem A. (31 May) 1966. The Neotropical land snail genera: Labyrinthus and Isomeria (Pulmonata, Camaenidae). Fieldiana, Zoology, volume 50: page 58-59.


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