Allopeas gracile

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Allopeas gracile
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Live specimen of Allopeas gracile
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Shell of Allopeas gracile (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Achatinina
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Genus: Allopeas
Species:
A. gracile
Binomial name
Allopeas gracile
(Hutton, 1834)
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Synonyms

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Allopeas gracile, common name the graceful awlsnail, [1] is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae. [2]

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Description

The length of the shell varies between 9.8 mm and 12.1 mm; its diameter between 2.9 mm and 3.3 mm.

(Original description) Animal: The animal is equipped with four retractile tentacles, with the upper pair being longer and bearing eyes at their tips. The foot is elongated, rather rounded at the rear, and truncated at the front. Its color is a pale yellowish hue.

Shell: The shell is transparent, thin, and rather colorless, with a spire that tapers gradually. It consists of 12 whorls, with the body whorl equal in size to the two preceding whorls. The aperture is semi-ovate, longer than it is wide. The columellar lip is straight and slightly reflected, while the outer lip is finely edged. [3]

(Recent description) The shell is conically elongated and slender, with a translucent, glossy surface of pale yellowish hue. It comprises 7½ to 8 whorls, tapering gradually towards a blunt apex. The protoconch consists of approximately two smooth whorls, while the subsequent whorls are adorned with obliquely arranged, fine, and densely packed riblets. The spire tapers evenly, and the whorls are flatly convex with a wide, shallow suture. The last whorl is the largest. The aperture is tall and oblong, with a thin peristome. The columellar margin near the umbilicus is slightly expanded, and the columella is straight. The umbilicus is narrowly open. [4]

Distribution

Allopeas gracile occurs throughout the tropics and subtropics worldwide. [5]

It is also found living in greenhouses in other areas, as a "hothouse exotic".

Synonyms

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References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference. [5]

  1. ↑ "Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)". ITIS, accessed 10 October 2010.
  2. ↑ Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017. . World Register of Marine Species , Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Hutton, T. (1834). "On the land shells of India". The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 3 (26): 81–93. Retrieved 27 August 2024.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. ↑ Man, N. S., Ablett, J. D., Lwin, N., Sutcharit, C. & Panha, S. (2024). "Contributions on a small collection of the former Subulinidae Fischer & Crosse, 1877 (Eupulmonata, Achatinoidea) with catalogue of the Glessula and Rishetia species recorded from Myanmar". Zookeys. 1208: 173–239.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) )
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a13 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "Cook Islands Biodiversity : Allopeas gracile - Graceful Awlsnail".
  7. ↑ Rowson B., Warren B. H. & Ngereza C. F. (2010). "Terrestrial molluscs of Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and its status as an "oceanic" island". ZooKeys 70: 1-39. doi : 10.3897/zookeys.70.762.
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