Strobilops labyrinthicus

Strobilops labyrinthicus
The shell of Strobilops labyrinthicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Strobilopsidae
Genus:	Strobilops
Species:	S. labyrinthicus
Binomial name
Strobilops labyrinthicus (Say, 1817)
Synonyms
Strobilops labyrinthica

Strobilops labyrinthicus, common name the maze pinecone, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Strobilopsidae.

Its shell color is reddish brown and it has a height of 1.7-1.8 mm with a diameter of 2.3 mm. Its aperture is semicircular in shape, peristome reflected, brown. ^[1] Older descriptions refer to it as Strobilops Labyrinthica. ^[2]

The head of Strobilops labyrinthicus

The shell of Strobilops labyrinthicus broken away to show the internal lamellae

Distribution

This species of land snail occurs in the Eastern United States, from Texas northward to British America, Manitoba (Carberry), Ontario (Moose Factory) in Canada. ^[3]

• Oklahoma ^[4]

References

1. Taft, Celeste. The Shell-Bearing Land Snails of Ohio. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey. Vol 1 No. 3. Published by the Ohio State University 1961. p. 54
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Strobilops labyrinthica (Say, 1817). Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1366516 on 2021-11-26
3. Dall W. H. 1905. Alaska, Volume XIII, Land and Fresh Water Mollusks. New York, Daubleday, Page & Complany, pages 1-157, page 27.
4. Branson B. A. (1961). "The Recent Gastropoda of Oklahoma, III. Terrestrial Species: Pupillidae, Carychiidae, Strobilopsidae and Oligyridae". Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science for 1960: 41: 45-69. PDF.