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Lauria cylindracea

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Lauria cylindracea
A shell of Lauria cylindracea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Lauriidae
Genus: Lauria
Species:
L. cylindracea
Binomial name
Lauria cylindracea

Lauria cylindracea, the common chrysalis snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Lauriidae.

Description

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The 3-4 x 1.8 mm shell is oval with a blunt apex and 5-6 weakly convex whorls. The last whorl has the largest diameter. The aperture with parietalis and with or without angular tooth. The margin is white, sharp and reflected in fully grown specimens, usually with a whitish parietal callus. The umbilicus is open and narrow. The shell colour is brown, transparent and shiny. It is weakly striated. Juveniles have additional folds visible from outside the shell. The animal is dark with lighter sides and foot. The upper tentacles are short, the lower tentacles very short. The animal crawls with the shell in a high and almost straight position.

Distribution

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This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands:

It has been introduced to:

  • British Columbia, Canada[2]
  • New Zealand[3]

References

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  1. ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
  2. ^ Forsyth, R.G. 2004. Land Snails of British Columbia. Royal British Columbia Museum Handbook. Royal BC Museum, Victoria. iv + 188 pp.
  3. ^ New Zealand Mollusca, Images: Lauria cylindracea (da Costa, 1778). http://www.mollusca.co.nz/speciesdetail.php?taxa=3995 Accessed 3rd January 2022
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