Columella edentula | |
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Six shells of Columella edentula, scale bar in mm | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Truncatellinidae |
Genus: | Columella |
Species: | C. edentula |
Binomial name | |
Columella edentula (Draparnaud, 1805) [1] | |
Synonyms | |
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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]
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.
This species occurs in countries and islands including:
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