Aegopinella nitidula

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Aegopinella nitidula
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a live Aegopinella nitidula
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Gastrodontidae
Genus: Aegopinella
Species:
A. nitidula
Binomial name
Aegopinella nitidula
(Draparnaud, 1805)
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Synonyms
  • Aegopinella (Politenella) nitidula(Draparnaud, 1805) (unaccepted subgeneric classification)
  • Helix nitidulaDraparnaud, 1805 (original combination)

Aegopinella nitidula (previously known as Retinella nitidula), common name the waxy glass snail, is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae, the glass snails. [1]

Contents

Forsyth et al. (2001) [2] reviewed its identification and ecology.

Description

For terms see gastropod shell.

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Shell

The diameter attains 8 mm, its height 6 mm.

The shell is amber-reddish in color, occasionally appearing whitish. It is milky white near the umbilicus. It is finely striated with spiral lines, forming a delicate reticular pattern, less prominent than in A. pura . The apex is strongly convex, featuring 3.5 to 4.5 convex whorls that increase regularly in size. The body whorl is not inflated near the aperture and does not descend. The aperture is slightly oblique, and the umbilicus is wide. The animal itself is bluish-grey with a lighter sole and bluish-black upper tentacles. [3]

Distribution

This shell is very similar to Aegopinella nitens , but has a different distribution being found in northwestern Europe.

This species occurs in these countries amongst others:

Habitat

Aegiponella nitidula prefers moderately humid to humid sites in forests, but it can occur in a wide range of habitats, for example hedges, rocks and spring areas. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ WoRMS. "Aegopinella nitidula (Draparnaud, 1805)". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2024-06-01.
  2. 1 2 Forsyth, R.G., Hutchinson, J.M.C. & Reise, H. 2001. Aegopinella nitidula (Draparnaud, 1805) (Gastropoda: Zonitidae) in British Columbia—first confirmed North American record. American Malacological Bulletin 16: 65–69.
  3. ↑ Animalbase (Welter-Schultes)
  4. ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  5. ↑ Welter-Schultes, F.W. 2012. European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification: Bestimmungsbuch für europäische Land- und Süsswassermollusken. Planet Poster Editions: Göttingen.
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