Columella edentula

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Columella edentula
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Six shells of Columella edentula, scale bar in mm
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Truncatellinidae
Genus: Columella
Species:
C. edentula
Binomial name
Columella edentula
(Draparnaud, 1805) [1]
Synonyms
  • Columella inornata(Michaud, 1831) (junior synonym)
  • Pupa edentulaDraparnaud, 1805 (original combination)
  • Pupa inornataMichaud, 1831 (junior synonym)

Columella edentula, common name the "toothless column snail", is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Truncatellinidae. [2]

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Description

The 2.5-3 (-3.5) mm. shell is cylindrical with a conical apex and yellow-brown to brown. The aperture is without teeth and the simple lip is thin. The shell has (4.5 )5-6 (-7) whorls. The last whorl has the largest diameter. The apex is more pointed than in Columella columella . It is narrower and taller than the shell of the similar Columella aspera . The shell sculpture is more irregular and finer than that of C. aspera.

Details of the shell of Columella edentula Columella edentula drawing.jpg
Details of the shell of Columella edentula

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

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References

  1. ↑ Draparnaud, J.-P.-R. 1805. Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Ouvrage posthume. Avec XIII planches. - pp. [1-9], j-viij [= 1-8], 1-134, [Pl. 1-13]. Paris, Montpellier. (Plassan, Renaud).
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). "Columella edentula". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 21 September 2021.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.


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