Adelopoma occidentale is a species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae. [1]
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| Shell of Adelopoma occidentale (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
| Family: | Diplommatinidae |
| Genus: | Adelopoma |
| Species: | A. occidentale
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| Binomial name | |
| Adelopoma occidentale (Godwin-Austen, 1886)
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Description
edit(Original description) The sinistral shell is elongately turreted and scarcely sinuate. Its sculpture has a somewhat distant well marked costulation The colour is white. The spire is rather attenuate and had a blunt apex. The suture is deep. The shell contains six whorls with tumid sides. The body whorl is small, the penultimate whorl much the broadest, those above becoming gradually swollen to the apex. The aperture is small, subvertical and round. The peristome is continuous, closely double. The columellar margin is weak, no tooth, the twist on columella seen within the aperture. [2]
Distribution
editThis species is found in Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Adelopoma occidentale (Godwin-Austen, 1886). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1434768 on 2024-04-13
- ^ Godwin-Austen, H. H. (1882-1920). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. London, Taylor & Francis.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Robinson, D. G., Fields, A. & Zimmerman, F. J. (2004). The terrestrial malacofauna of Trinidad and Tobago. Interim report. 1-21.
External links
edit- Bartsch, P. (1942). The cyclophorid mollusks of the West Indies, exclusive of Cuba. In: de la Torre, C.; Bartsch, P.; Morrison, J. P. E. The cyclophorid operculate land mollusks of America. United States National Museum Bulletin. 181(2): 43-141
- Kobelt W. (1902). Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. 16. Lieferung. Mollusca. Cyclophoridae. Das Tierreich. XXXIX + 662 pp., 1 map.