| Nitor pudibunda | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicarionidae |
| Genus: | Nitor |
| Species: | N. pudibunda |
| Binomial name | |
| Nitor pudibunda Cox, 1868 [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
Nitor pudibunda is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicarionidae. This species is endemic to Australia.
Cox's description of the shell of a specimen of N. pudibunda, published in A Monograph of Australian Land Shells, 1868. [1] α
Shell perforated, depressly-turbinate, thin and transparent, very smooth, showing under the lens very faint curved lines, and traces of still fainter spiral lines, shining, pinkish or flesh coloured; spire broadly conical, rather acute; 6 whorls, flatly convex, last not descending in front, the periphery shewing nearly obsolete traces of a keel, below convex, glossy, generally opaquely milky-white about the umbilicus, which is minute and shallow; aperture diagonal, somewhat squarely-lunar, pearly within; peristome simple, acute, columellar margin very slightly triangularly dilated and reflected above. In old age, white and callous.
Diameter 0.65[1.651cm]; height 0.55[1.397cm] of an inch.
Habitat. Richmond River.— MacGillivray. Moreton Bay.— Masters.
The smoothness, want of carina, pinkish colour, and callous columella are the chief points of distinction between this and H. Moretonensis and H. subrugata. β
The species is found in eastern Australia, most commonly along the coasts of Queensland and New South Wales, from Cooloola to Lismore. [2] [4] [5] [6]