Cathaica fasciola Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Camaenidae |
Genus: | Cathaica |
Species: | C. fasciola |
Binomial name | |
Cathaica fasciola (Draparnaud, 1801) [1] | |
Synonyms | |
Helix fasciola Draparnaud, 1801 Contents |
Cathaica fasciola is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae, which is similar to Cathaica pyrrhozona on shell morphology. [2]
This species was described under the name Helix fasciola by French naturalist Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud in 1801. [1]
This species is widely distributed in China. [3] [4]
It is also known from Pliocene of Xifeng Red Clay (4.5 Ma - 3.4 Ma) in the Chinese Loess Plateau. [5] Other localities include Lower Pliocene Red Clay of Shueh-hwa-shan in Hebei Province; Pleistocene Red clay of Fenho, Shanxi Province; near Honanfu in Henan Province; near Tung-ho and in Tsing-ling-shan in Shaanxi Province; near Ta-ho in Gansu Province. [6]
Draparnaud listed "France: La Rochelle" as the type locality. [1] [7] This error could happen if Draparnaud did not know origin of imported shells.
The shell is thin, [8] but solid. [4] The color of the shell is white, rather opaque, with a broad chestnut-brown band at the periphery, and a faint brownish band below the suture. [4] The shape of the shell is depressed above and below. [4] The spire is low-conoid. [4] The surface is shining, sculptured above with close rib-striae, becoming more delicate below. [4] The shell has 5½ whorls. [8] [4] The earliest whorl is smooth, shining, forming a subacute apex. [4] Following whorls are slightly convex, slowly increasing, separated by an impressed suture. [4] The last whorl is much wider, rounded at the periphery, hardly descending in front. [4] Aperture is slightly oblique, lunate-oval. [4] Peristome is white and thickened with a strong white lip. [8] [4] The umbilicus is rapidly narrowing to a narrow, deep perforation. [4] The width of umbilicus is one-eighth the greatest diameter. [4]
The width of the shell is 15 mm. [8] [4] The height of the shell is 8.5 mm. [4]
Digestive system: radula and jaw was depicted by George Washington Tryon and Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1894. [9]
Reproductive system: penis is slender, ending in a long retractor and the terminal vas deferens. [9] Dart sac is large, opening into atrium. [9] There is a dense cluster of about ten club-shaped, glandular mucus glands near the atrium base. [9] Spermatheca duct is long. [9]
The diploid number of chromosomes (2n) is 60. [10] [11] Seven chromosome pairs are metacentric, one pair is submetacentric and 22 pairs are telocentric. [11]
Cathaica fasciola it is often locally abundant. [12] It was thought that Cathaica fasciola belongs to the cold-aridiphilous and meso-xerophilous groups of species in 2006. [5] However it is considered as a typical species of eurytopic group as of 2018. [13] It is one of main species found in Quaternary loess terrestrial gastropod assemblages in China. [13]
Cathaica fasciola is polyphagous and it causes damage to vegetables, fruits, flowers and other economic agricultural crops. [3] The food preference study of Cathaica fasciola was published in 2015. [14]
It hibernates in winter and it aestivates in summer. [3] It produces an epiphragm during the dormancy. [3]
Parasites of Cathaica fasciola include Dicrocoelium trematode.[ clarification needed ] [15]
Predators of snails Cathaica fasciola include Rathouisia leonina (in laboratory conditions only). [16]
Cathaica fasciola is considered as a pest in agriculture. [3] Most affected areas in China include: Beijing municipality, Zhejiang Province, Henan Province, Yunnan Province and Shanxi Province. [3]
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