Innesoconcha catletti
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Trochomorphoidea |
| Family: | Microcystidae |
| Genus: | Innesoconcha |
| Species: | I. catletti
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| Innesoconcha catletti | |
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| Location of Lord Howe Island | |
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Innesoconcha catletti, also known as the Catlett's yellow glass-snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.[2]
Description
[edit]The depressedly trochoidal shell of the mature snail is 4.3–6.8 mm in height, with a diameter of 8.6–11.8 mm, yellow-brown in colour. The whorls are flattened above and rounded below, with weakly impressed sutures. It has an ovately lunate aperture and closed umbilicus. The animal is beige to pale grey, with a cream sole, pink head and dark grey eyestalks.[2]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]The snail is widespread and common in the lowlands and lower slopes of the southern mountains of the island, where it is found in moist woodland and rainforest, in leaf litter and the leaf sheaths of palms.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Brazier, J (1872). "Description of six new Australian land shells from Australia and Lord Howe's Island". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1872: 617.
- ^ a b c Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.
- MolluscaBase eds (2021). "Innesoconcha catletti (Brazier, 1872)". MolluscaBase. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
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