Candaharia rutellum is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae.
| Candaharia rutellum | |
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| Drawing of lateral view of preserved specimen of Candaharia rutellum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Parmacellidae |
| Genus: | Candaharia |
| Species: | C. rutellum
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| Candaharia rutellum | |
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Parmacella (Proparmacella) rutellum (Hutton, 1849) | |
Distribution
editThe distribution of Candaharia rutellum includes mountains in Central Asia: Tien-Shan, Alai and Pamir-Darvaz.[2]
Other known areas of distribution include:
- The surroundings of Saint Petersburg, Russia.[2][3]
The type locality for this species is Kandahar, Afghanistan.[2]
Description
edit L - left shell lap of mantle
ML - left mantle lobe
TE - upper tentacle (ommatophore)
TV - lower tentacle
J - mouth
P - penis
LP - pneumostome
References
edit- ^ Hutton T. (1849-1850). "Notices of some Land and Fresh Water Shells occurring in Afghanistan". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (2)18: 649-661, 967. type description is on pages 649-650.
- ^ a b c d Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.
- ^ a b c d e Wiktor A. & Jurkowska J. (2007). "The collection of terrestrial slugs (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) at the Museum of Natural History, Wrocław University (Poland)". Folia Malacologica 15(2): 83-93.