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Lesticulus nocturnus

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Lesticulus nocturnus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Trigonochlamydidae
Subfamily: Trigonochlamydinae
Genus: Lesticulus
Schileyko, 1988[1]
Species:
L. nocturnus
Binomial name
Lesticulus nocturnus
Schileyko, 1988[1]

Lesticulus nocturnus is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae.[2]

L. nocturnus is the only species in the genus Lesticulus.

Distribution

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The distribution of L. nocturnus includes only its type locality.

The type locality of L. nocturnus is the Oficho Cave near Kumistavi village, near Tzkhaltubo, western Georgia.[2]

Ecology

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L. nocturnus inhabits the cave.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b (in Russian) Шилейко А. А. [Schileyko A. A.] (1988). "Два новых троглобион тных вида наземных легочных моллюсков (Daudebardiidae и Trigonochlamydidae) Гру зии." [Two new troglobiont species of terrestrial pulmonate molluscs (Daudebardiidae and Trigonochlamydidae) from Georgia". Зоологический Журнал [Zoologicheskij Zhurnal] 67(11): 1730–1735.
  2. ^ a b c Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on 22 December 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.