Leucophytia bidentata

Leucophytia bidentata
Leucophytia bidentata on the right and Myosotella myosotis on the left
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata

Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Leucophytia
Species: L. bidentata
Binomial name
Leucophytia bidentata
(Montagu, 1808)[1]

Leucophytia bidentata is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.

Description

For terms see gastropod shell.

The shell is 5-7 mm. high x 2-4 mm.wide. It is either white or horny to reddish brown and the shell has 6-7 very weakly convex whorls.The last whorl is 75% of the shell height and the apex is pointed.The aperture has a white layer at the parietal side, the parietalis (the spiral ridge on the parietal region projecting into the interior of the shell) is usually strong.The columellaris (or internal lip of the shell aperture) is moderately or indistinctly developed. There is no umbilicus.

Biology

This species of snail is semi-marine in habitat.

a shell of Leucophytia bidentata

Distribution

This species is found on the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean:

and the Mediterranean Sea:

Common name

The two-toothed white snail.

References

  1. ↑ Montagu G. (1808). Supplement to Testacea Britannica. pp. [1], i-v [= 1-5], 1-183, Pl. 17-30. London.
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