Aegopinella subnitens

Aegopinella subnitens
Shell of Aegopinella subnitens (holotype)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Gastrodontidae
Genus: Aegopinella
Species:
†A. subnitens
Binomial name
†Aegopinella subnitens
(Klein, 1853)
Synonyms
  • † Helix subnitens Klein, 1853 superseded combination
  • † Hyalina undorfensis Clessin, 1894 junior subjective synonym
  • † Hyalinia (Hyalinia) subnitens (Klein, 1853) superseded combination
  • † Hyalinia (Hyalinia) subnitens f. recedens Gottschick, 1920 junior subjective synonym
  • † Oxychilus subnitens (Klein, 1853) superseded combination
  • † Oxychilus subnitens recedens (Gottschick, 1920) junior subjective synonym

Aegopinella subnitens is an extinct species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae, the glass snails.[1]

Description

(Original description in Latin) The shell is distinctly umbilicate and depressed, with a flat and glabrous surface. It is shiny and consists of 4.5 convex whorls that gradually increase in size, with the body whorl slightly expanded anteriorly. The aperture is ovate-lunate, and the peristome is simple and acute, with the apertural lip being non-callous.[2]

Distribution

Fossils of this extinct species were found in late Miocene strata in Baden-Württemberg, Germany and in southern Poland.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b WoRMS. "Aegopinella subnitens (Klein, 1853)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
  2. ^ Klein, A. (1853). Conchylien der Süsswasserkalkformation Württembergs. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg. 9, 203-223 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Clessin, S. (1894). Die Conchylien der obermiocaenen Ablagerungen von Undorf bei Regensburg. III. Ergänzung. Berichte des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Regensburg. 4: 25–37.
  • Stworzewicz, E.; Prisyazhnyuk, V.A.; Górka, M. (2013). Systematic and palaeoecological study of Miocene terrestrial gastropods from Zwierzyniec (southern Poland). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae. 83, 179–200.