Leptopoma perlucidum

Leptopoma perlucidum
Shell of Leptopoma perlucidum (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Cyclophoridae
Genus:	Leptopoma
Species:	L. perlucidum
Binomial name
Leptopoma perlucidum (Grateloup, 1840)
Synonyms
Cyclostoma nitidumSowerby, G.B. II, 1843 (junior synonym) Cyclostoma pellucidaGrateloup, 1840 (typographic error on page 454 for "perlucidum"; not an available name) Cyclostoma perlucidaGrateloup, 1840 (original combination) Cyclostoma vitreumQuoy & Gaimard, 1832 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cyclostoma vitreumDraparnaud, 1801; considered as a distinct species in the Solomon Islands by Delsaerdt (2016)) Cyclostoma vitreumLesson, 1831 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cyclostoma vitreumDraparnaud, 1801) Leptopoma (Leptopoma) cinctellumL. Pfeiffer, 1862 (junior synonym) Leptopoma (Leptopoma) lowi L. Pfeiffer, 1858 (junior synonym) Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum(Lesson, 1831)· accepted, alternate representation Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum var. lacteumKobelt, 1886 (junior synonym) Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum var. levisHidalgo, 1886 (junior synonym) Leptopoma cinctellumL. Pfeiffer, 1862 (junior synonym) Leptopoma lowiL. Pfeiffer, 1858 (junior synonym) Leptopoma nitidum(Sowerby, G.B. II, 1843) (junior synonym) Leptopoma nitidum faberIredale, 1941 (junior synonym) Leptopoma nitidum sanctumIredale, 1943 (junior synonym) Leptopoma nitidum ultraIredale, 1937 (junior synonym) Leptopoma nitidum weeksiBartsch, 1919 (junior synonym) Leptopoma perlucida(Grateloup, 1840) (incorrect gender of species name) Leptopoma perlucidum levisHidalgo, 1886 (junior synonym) Leptopoma perlucidum var. lacteumKobelt, 1886 (basionym) Leptopoma vitrea(Lesson, 1831) (incorrect gender of species name) Leptopoma vitreum(Lesson, 1831) (invalid: based on a preoccupied original name) Leptopoma vitreum lacteumKobelt, 1886 (junior synonym) Leptopoma vitreum var. lacteumKobelt, 1886 (original rank) Leptopoma vitreum var. levisHidalgo, 1886 (basionym)

Leptopoma perlucidum is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Cyclophoridae. ^[1]

Apertural view of the shell of Leptopoma perlucidum

Distribution

This species occurs in Indonesia, ^[2] Sabah (Malaysia), ^[3] the Philippines, ^[1] the Solomon Islands and Australia.^{[ citation needed ]}

Description

The shell width and height is about 14 mm (0.6 in) in females and 13 mm (0.5 in) in males. ^[3] The color of the shell is actually translucently milky-white, and the green color is from the mantle.

References

1. Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Leptopoma perlucidum (Grateloup, 1840)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2021-05-01.
2. Leptopoma nitidum Archived 2009-06-05 at the Wayback Machine . BISHOGAI Data Base, accessed 2 April 2009.
3. Phung, Chee-Chean; Choo, Ming-Huei & Liew, Thor-Seng (2022). "Sexual dimorphism in shell size of the land snail Leptopoma perlucidum (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". PeerJ. 10: e13501. doi: 10.7717/peerj.13501 . PMC   9150688 . PMID   35651743.

• Vermeulen, J. J. (1999). Notes on the non-marine molluscs of the island of Borneo 9. The genera Cyclophorus, Leptopoma, and Craspedotropis (Gastropoda Prosobranchia: Cyclophoridae). Basteria. 63: 139–163.
• Delsaerdt A. , 2016 Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Vol. III. Trochomorphidae and systematical review of all other families. Ancona: L'Informatore Piceno. 160 pp

External links

• Grateloup, J.P.S. de. (1840 ["1839"]). Note sur un mémoire relatif à des molluques exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Actes de la Société Linnéene de Bordeaux. 11 : 161–170
• Reeve, L. A. (1841–1842). Conchologia Systematica, or complete system of conchology; in which the Lepades and conchiferous Mollusca are described and classified according to their natural organization and habits. Longman, Brown, Green, & Longman's, London
• Lesson R.P. (1830–1831). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, 2(1)
• Pfeiffer, L. (1858). Monographia Pneumonopomorum viventium. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium hujus ordinis generum et specierum hodie cognitarum, accedente fossilium enume-ratione. Supplementum primum. i–vi, 1–249. Cassellis: Theodori Fischeri / London: Williams & Norgate / Paris: Friedr. Klincksieck
• Pfeiffer, L. (1862). Descriptions of Sixteen New Species of Land-shells from the Collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 29 (25)
• Iredale, T. (1941). A basic list of the land Mollusca of Papua. The Australian Zoologist. 10(1): 51–94, pls. 3–4
• Bartsch, P. (1919). Critical remarks on Philippine landshells with descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 32: 15–19
• Phung, Chee-Chean; Yu, Fred Tuh Yit; Liew, Thor-Seng (2017). "A checklist of land snails from the west coast islands of Sabah, Borneo (Mollusca, Gastropoda)". ZooKeys (673): 49–104. Bibcode:2017ZooK..673...49P. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.673.12422 . PMC   5523196 . PMID   28769672.