Plectostoma concinnum

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Plectostoma concinnum
Atopos and Plectostoma concinnum.png
Atopos slug attacking Plectostoma concinnum by shell-drilling.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Plectostoma
Species:
P. concinnum
Binomial name
Plectostoma concinnum
(Fulton, 1901)

Plectostoma concinnum is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.

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Description

Variability of shells of Plectostoma concinnum. Variation in the Plectostoma concinnum complex in the Lower Kinabatangan valley, Sabah, Borneo.jpg
Variability of shells of Plectostoma concinnum.

Ecology

Predators of Plectostoma concinnum include slugs of the genus Atopos . [1]

References

  1. Liew T.-S. & Schilthuizen M. (2014). "Association between shell morphology of micro-land snails (genus Plectostoma) and their predator’s predatory behaviour". PeerJ2: e329. doi : 10.7717/peerj.329 .