Leptopoma perlucidum

Leptopoma perlucidum
	Shell of Leptopoma perlucidum (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Cyclophoridae
Genus:	Leptopoma
Species:	L. perlucidum
Binomial name
	Leptopoma perlucidum; (Grateloup, 1840)
Synonyms
	Cyclostoma nitidum Sowerby, G.B. II, 1843 (junior synonym); Cyclostoma pellucida Grateloup, 1840 (typographic error on page 454 for "perlucidum"; not an available name); Cyclostoma perlucida Grateloup, 1840 (original combination); Cyclostoma vitreum Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cyclostoma vitreum Draparnaud, 1801; considered as a distinct species in the Solomon Islands by Delsaerdt (2016)); Cyclostoma vitreum Lesson, 1831 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cyclostoma vitreum Draparnaud, 1801); Leptopoma (Leptopoma) cinctellum L. Pfeiffer, 1862 (junior synonym); Leptopoma (Leptopoma) lowi L. Pfeiffer, 1858 (junior synonym); Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum (Lesson, 1831)· accepted, alternate representation; Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum var. lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (junior synonym); Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum var. levis Hidalgo, 1886 (junior synonym); Leptopoma cinctellum L. Pfeiffer, 1862 (junior synonym); Leptopoma lowi L. Pfeiffer, 1858 (junior synonym); Leptopoma nitidum (Sowerby, G.B. II, 1843) (junior synonym); Leptopoma nitidum faber Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym); Leptopoma nitidum sanctum Iredale, 1943 (junior synonym); Leptopoma nitidum ultra Iredale, 1937 (junior synonym); Leptopoma nitidum weeksi Bartsch, 1919 (junior synonym); Leptopoma perlucida (Grateloup, 1840) (incorrect gender of species name); Leptopoma perlucidum levis Hidalgo, 1886 (junior synonym); Leptopoma perlucidum var. lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (basionym); Leptopoma vitrea (Lesson, 1831) (incorrect gender of species name); Leptopoma vitreum (Lesson, 1831) (invalid: based on a preoccupied original name); Leptopoma vitreum lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (junior synonym); Leptopoma vitreum var. lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (original rank); Leptopoma vitreum var. levis Hidalgo, 1886 (basionym);

Leptopoma perlucidum is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Cyclophoridae.^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in Indonesia,^[2] Sabah (Malaysia),^[3] the Philippines,^[1] and the Solomon Islands.

Description

The shell width and height is about 14 mm (0.6 in) in females and 13 mm (0.5 in) in males.^[3] The color of the shell is actually translucently milky-white, and the green color is from the mantle.

References

^ ^a ^b Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Leptopoma perlucidum (Grateloup, 1840)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
^ Leptopoma nitidum. BISHOGAI Data Base, accessed 2 April 2009.
^ ^a ^b Phung, Chee-Chean; Choo, Ming-Huei & Liew, Thor-Seng (2022). "Sexual dimorphism in shell size of the land snail Leptopoma perlucidum (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". PeerJ. 10: e13501. doi:10.7717/peerj.13501. PMC 9150688. PMID 35651743.

Vermeulen, J. J. (1999). Notes on the non-marine molluscs of the island of Borneo 9. The genera Cyclophorus, Leptopoma, and Craspedotropis (Gastropoda Prosobranchia: Cyclophoridae). Basteria. 63: 139–163.
Delsaerdt A. , 2016 Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Vol. III. Trochomorphidae and systematical review of all other families. Ancona: L'Informatore Piceno. 160 pp

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[WoRMS-1] Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Leptopoma perlucidum (Grateloup, 1840)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2021-05-01.

[2] Leptopoma nitidum. BISHOGAI Data Base, accessed 2 April 2009.

[Phung_et_al._2022-3] Phung, Chee-Chean; Choo, Ming-Huei & Liew, Thor-Seng (2022). "Sexual dimorphism in shell size of the land snail Leptopoma perlucidum (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae)". PeerJ. 10: e13501. doi:10.7717/peerj.13501. PMC 9150688. PMID 35651743.

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