Anostoma carinatum

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Anostoma carinatum
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Image of Anostoma carinatum (syntype at Natural History Museum, London)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Tomogeridae
Genus: Anostoma
Species:
A. carinatum
Binomial name
Anostoma carinatum
L. Pfeiffer, 1853

Anostoma carinatum is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Tomogeridae. [1]

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Description

The length of the shell attains 13 mm, its maximum diameter 24.5 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is deeply chinked, conoid-lenticular (shaped like a cone and a lens), and somewhat solid, with a sharp keel. It is pale, with a narrow chestnut band above the keel and at the suture. The spire is a short cone. There are 5 rather flat whorls, the upper ones slightly striated. The body whorl is irregularly and wavy-ribbed and striated, with a convex base marked with chestnut spots, and is pitted anteriorly. The aperture continues the periphery of the spire and is semicircular, constricted by 6 strong, wavy lamellae. The peristome is white, widely expanded, and reflected, with a large, oblong hole on the right margin at the insertion point. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Brazil. [3]

References

  1. Anostoma carinatum L. Pfeiffer, 1853 . 17 August 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
  2. Pfeiffer, L. (1853). "Diagnosen neuer Heliceen". Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. Cassel (Theodor Fischer). 10 (4): 57. Retrieved 17 August 2025.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. Norma Campos Salgado & Arnaldo C. dos Santos Coelho. 2003. Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae) Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine . Rev. Biol. Trop. 51 (Suppl. 3): 149-189. (in Portuguese with English abstract)