Allopeas brevispira is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.[1]
| Allopeas brevispira | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Genus: | Allopeas |
| Species: | A. brevispira
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| Binomial name | |
| Allopeas brevispira (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
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| Synonyms | |
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Opeas brevispira Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904 (original combination) | |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 3 mm.
(Original description) The shell is openly perforate and oblong, notably short for the genus. It has a corneous, translucent, and glossy surface, finely striated with wrinkles. The spire is short and tapers smoothly to a blunt apex. It has 5½ moderately convex whorls. The aperture is elongated and rhombic-convex, with the outer lip arched forward in the middle. The columellar lip is reflexed, only adhering at the point of insertion, while the columella remains straight. [2]
Distribution
editReferences
edit- ^ Allopeas brevispira (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904). 27 August 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Pilsbry, H. A. & Hirase, Y. (1904). "Descriptions of new land shells of the Japanese Empire". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 56: 637. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
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- ^ Gbif.org: Opeas brevispira
- Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. Shirahama: H. Minato. pp. 1–294.