Pontophaedusa funiculum

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Pontophaedusa funiculum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Genus: Pontophaedusa
Species:
P. funiculum
Binomial name
Pontophaedusa funiculum
(Mousson, 1856) [1]
Synonyms

Clausilia funiculum Mousson, 1856

Pontophaedusa funiculum is a species of land snail, a gastropod in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails within the subfamily Serrulininae. [2] All door snails have a clausilium with which they can close the shell aperture.

This is the only known species within the Clausiliidae that lays eggs that have hard shells made of calcium carbonate. [3]

Distribution

Pontophaedusa funiculum lives on the eastern coast of the Black Sea from Sochi in Russia, though Georgia, to Trabzon in Turkey. [3]

References

  1. ↑ (in German) Mousson, A. (1856). "Verzeichniss der von Herrn Dr. Schläfli eingekommenen zweiten malacologischen Sendung". Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 1: 395-399. page 396
  2. ↑ Páll-Gergely B. (2010). "Additional information on the reproductive biology and development of the clausilial apparatus in Pontophaedusa funiculum (Mousson, 1856) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae, Phaedusinae)". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca9: 1–4. Online serial at <http://mollusca.sav.sk> 15-February-2010.
  3. 1 2 Páll-Gergely B. & Németh L. (2008). "Observations on the breeding habits, shell development, decollation, and reproductive anatomy of Pontophaedusa funiculum (Mousson 1856) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae, Phaedusinae)". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca7: 11-14. Online serial at <http://mollusca.sav.sk> 8-February-2008.


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