Aegopinella denudata is an extinct species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae, the glass snails.[1]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Gastrodontidae |
Genus: | Aegopinella |
Species: | †A. denudata
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Binomial name | |
†Aegopinella denudata (Reuss, 1849)
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Description
editThe diameter of the shell attains 14 mm, its height 4.5 mm.[citation needed]
(Original description in Latin) The solid shell is depressed and flat spire and a broad, open umbilicus. It is shiny and shows microscopically small spiral striations. It features 5.5 convex whorls. The sutures are moderately impressed. The wide and elongate-ovoid aperture is depressed-lunate. The body whorl expands rapidly. The peristome is acute, simple, and straight. It exhibits a creeping growth pattern.[2]
Distribution
editFossils of this extinct species were found in Miocene strata in the Czech Republic
References
edit- ^ WoRMS. "Aegopinella denudata (Reuss, 1849)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ Reuss, A.E. (1849). Beschreibung der fossilen Ostracoden und Mollusken der tertiären Süsswasserschichten des nördlichen Böhmens (In: Reuss, A.E., Meyer, H.v.). Palaeontographica. 2, 16-42. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
edit- Babor, J.F. (1897). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der tertiären Binnenconchylienfauna Böhmens. I. Sitzungsberichten der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe. 63: 1-18
- Harzhauser, M.; Neubauer, T.A.; Georgopoulou, E.; Harl, J. (2014). The Early Miocene (Burdigalian) mollusc fauna of the North Bohemian Lake (Most Basin). Bulletin of Geosciences. 89(4): 819-908