Sphincterochila cariosula

Sphincterochila cariosula
Five views of a shell of Sphincterochila cariosula.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Sphincterochilidae
Genus: Sphincterochila
Species:
S. cariosula
Binomial name
Sphincterochila cariosula
(Michaud, 1833)[1]
Synonyms
  • Helix cariosula Michaud, 1833
  • Sphincterochila (Cariosula) cariosula (Michaud, 1833) ·

Sphincterochila cariosula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Sphincterochilidae.[2]

Subspecies

  • Sphincterochila cariosula cariosula (Michaud, 1833)
  • Sphincterochila cariosula hispanica (Westerlund, 1891) - synonym Helix hispanica. The subspecies is distributed in Spain.[3]

Distribution

The indigenous distribution of the species is Algeria.[3] The species was introduced to Vélez-Málaga in southern Spain and to western Mallorca in historical times.[4]

Shell description

The shell is subimperforate, carinate, globosely convex above, carious, somewhat flattened below, soiled white, with a tubercularly eroded filiform sutural carina. The shell has 5 somewhat flattened whorls. The upper margin of the aperture is subdeflected.[3] The width of the shell is 16–19 mm and the height is 11–15 mm.[4]

Habitat

Sphincterochila cariosula occurs in scrublands and in semideserts.[4]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[3]

  1. ^ Michaud A.-L.-G. [1833]. Catalogue des testacés vivans envoyés d'Alger par M. Rozet, capitaine au Corps Royal d'État-Major, au Cabinet d'Histoire Naturelle de Strasbourg. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Strasbourg 1: 1-22.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Sphincterochila cariosula (Michaud, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050620 on 2022-06-19
  3. ^ a b c d George Washington Tryon, Jr. 1887. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. page 13–14.
  4. ^ a b c Species summary for Sphincterochila cariosula. AnimalBase, last modified 26-09-2008 by F. Welter Schultes, accessed 12 April 2009.
  • Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16, 2017.
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