Spelaeoconcha

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Spelaeoconcha
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Drawing of three views of a shell of Spelaeoconcha paganettii from its original description by Rudolf Sturany in 1901
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Pupilloidei
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Spelaeoconchidae
A. J. Wagner, 1928 [1]
Genus: Spelaeoconcha
Sturany, 1901 [2]
Species:
S. paganettii
Binomial name
Spelaeoconcha paganettii
Sturany, 1901 [2]
Subspecies [3]
  • Spelaeoconcha paganettii alphonsi Maassen, 1989
  • Spelaeoconcha paganettii paganettii Sturany, 1902
  • Spelaeoconcha paganettii polymorpha A. J. Wagner, 1914

Spelaeoconcha paganettii is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Pupilloidea. [4] It is the only species in the monotypic family Spelaeoconchidae. [4]

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Taxonomy

The family Spelaeoconchidae is classified within the informal clade Orthurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [4] The family Spelaeoconchidae has no subfamilies.

Distribution

The distribution of Spelaeoconcha paganettii includes Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. [5]

Description

The shell is whitish or pale yellowish, almost smooth and very shiny. [5] The shell has 7 not very convex whorls. [5] The last whorl is ascending shortly before the aperture. [5] The aperture is without teeth. [5] Apertural margin is thickened except on upper side, and with a wavy contour seen from the side. [5] The umbilicus is open but narrow, only partly covered by columellar margin of the aperture. [5]

The width of the shell is 2.5–2.6 mm. [5] The height of the shell is 5.4–6.1 mm. [5]

Ecology

This small snail was found under stone rubble, on blackish-brown soil in a cave. [5]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference [5]

  1. ↑ Wagner A. J. (1928). Annales Zoologicae Musei Polonici Historiae Naturalis 6(4): 318.
  2. 1 2 (in German) Sturany R. (1901). "Ueber eine neue Höhlenschnecke". Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 51: 761-762.
  3. ↑ "Spelaeoconcha paganettii". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Species summary for Spelaeoconcha paganettii". AnimalBase, last modified 12 August 2008, accessed 5 April 2011.
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