Adelopoma occidentale

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Adelopoma occidentale
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Shell of Adelopoma occidentale (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Adelopoma
Species:
A. occidentale
Binomial name
Adelopoma occidentale
(Godwin-Austen, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Diplommatina huttoni occidentalisGodwin-Austen, 1886 superseded combination
  • Diplomatina occidentalisGodwin-Austen, 1886 (original combination)
  • Palaina (Cylindropalaina) occidentalis(Godwin-Austen, 1886) superseded combination
  • Palaina occidentalisGodwin-Austen, 1886 superseded combination

Adelopoma occidentale is a species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae. [1]

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Description

(Original description) The sinistral shell is elongately turreted and scarcely sinuate. Its sculpture has a somewhat distant well marked costulation The colour is white. The spire is rather attenuate and had a blunt apex. The suture is deep. The shell contains six whorls with tumid sides. The body whorl is small, the penultimate whorl much the broadest, those above becoming gradually swollen to the apex. The aperture is small, subvertical and round. The peristome is continuous, closely double. The columellar margin is weak, no tooth, the twist on columella seen within the aperture. [2]

Distribution

This species is found in Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.

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