Meridolum corneovirens

Meridolum corneovirens
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: Camaenidae
Genus: Meridolum
Species: M. corneovirens
Binomial name
Meridolum corneovirens
Pfeiffer, 1851

Meridolum corneovirens is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae. This species is endemic to Australia.

While little is known about the feeding habits of M. corneovirens, it appears to have a broad dietary range with a preference for fungi; it has also been reported as feeding on dead conspecifics.[2]

Distribution of Meridolum corneovirens

References

  1. Ponder W. F. & Smith B. (1996). Meridolum corneovirens. 2015 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded in April 2015.
  2. Ridgeway P.A.; et al. (2014). "Indications of diverse behavioural ecologies in the morphologically conservative Australian land snails Pommerhelix and Meridolum (Stylommatophora: Camaenidae)". Molluscan Research 34 (1): 25–39. doi:10.1080/13235818.2013.866179.

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