Trochulus hispidus | |
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A live individual of Trochulus hispidus (an older adult with most of the hairs worn off of the shell) | |
Five views of a shell of Trochulus hispidus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Hygromiidae |
Genus: | Trochulus |
Species: | T. hispidus |
Binomial name | |
Trochulus hispidus | |
Synonyms [3] | |
Trichia hispida Contents |
Trochulus hispidus, previously known as Trichia hispida, common name, the "hairy snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
This species occurs in a number of European countries and islands including:
Western Europe:
Northern Europe:
Central Europe:
Southern Europe:
Eastern Europe:
The 3-6 x 5-11 mm shell has 5-6 moderately convex whorls which are rounded or very slightly keeled at the periphery. The aperture has a thin white lip inside. The umbilicus is open and usually wide at 1/8-1/4 of shell diameter. In colour the shell is brown to cream, sometimes with a light band at the periphery. The periostracum is irregularly striated, and densely covered with short (0.2-0.3 mm), curved hairs. These hairs usually remain in the umbilicus if worn away from the rest of the shell. Lost hairs leave pronounced scars. [6]
The animal is brownish grey with a darker anterior part. [6]
This species of snail creates and uses love darts before mating. The love dart of this species is thorn-shaped.
The size of the egg is 1.5 mm. [8]
A hairy snail was found in the plumage of a great tit (Parus major) wintering in southwestern Poland in 2010. This passerine was the smallest bird species reported to carry a gastropod. [9]
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