Levantina longinqua

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Levantina longinqua
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Levantina
Species:
L. longinqua
Binomial name
Levantina longinqua
(Schütt & Subai, 1996)

Levantinalonginqua is a poorly known species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. [1]

Contents

The species is only known from its type series of uncertain provenance.

Description

A large Levantina species (height 19–22 mm, diameter 40–43 mm). Shell flattened and thick-walled. Colour greyish white, the five bands are fuzzy and light brown, interrupted by a white zig-zag radial pattern. Whorls are not keeled in juveniles. Last whorl abruptly descends towards aperture. Aperture a bit expanded compared to the last whorl, with a broad reflected rim. Umbilicus largely covered. Most similar to Levantina cilicica . [1]

Distribution

The distribution is unknown. The species was described based on material allegedly originating from "Hasrat-Sultan" mountains southeast of Samarkand in Uzbekistan [2] However, there is no other record of Levantina that far east and the species was never found again. The material could have actually originated from the Taurus Mountains in Turkey. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Schütt, Hartwig; Subai, Peter (1996-01-15). "Revision of Assyriella P. Hesse 1908 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Helicidae: Helicinae)" . Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 125 (1–2): 117–161. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/125/1996/117. ISSN   0003-9284.
  2. ↑ Dohrn, Heinrich (1882). "Ueber einige centralasiatische Landschnecken". Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 9: 115–120.
  3. ↑ Riedel, Adolf (1987). "Revision der Gattung Zonites MONTFORT (Gastropoda, Zonitidae): türkische Arten. Nebst Erganzungen und Verzeichnis aller Zonites-Arten". Annales Zoologici. 41: 1–42, pl. 1-9.
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