Megalena crassa
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Genus: | Megalena Hausdorf, 1999[1]
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| Species: | M. crassa
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Megalena crassa, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Enidae.
Megalena is a monotypic genus, i.e. it contains only one species, Megalena crassa and therefore this species is also the type species.[1]
The generic name is composed from the prefix mega-, which means "large" from the ancient Greek language, and from the suffix -ena, for which the etymological origin is unknown.[1]
Specimens of this species are stored in collections in Europe: Germany (Senckenberg Museum, Institute of Zoology and Museum of Zoology of University of Hamburg), Poland (Institute of Zoology of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warszawa) and in the Netherlands.[1]
Distribution
[edit]This species is known only from a few individuals which were found in northwestern Turkey.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell is oval and elongated. The height of the shell is from 23.9 mm to 28.7 mm.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Hausdorf H. (1999) "A new genus of the Buliminidae from Turkey (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Journal of Natural History 33: 149-154. PDF Archived 2006-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in German) Retowski O. (1887) "Am Strande der Krim gefundene angeschwemmte Binnenconchylien". Malakozoologische Blatter, Neue Folge, 9: 22-42.
- ^ (in German) Forcart L. (1961) "Systematisches Verzeichnis der von Herrn Klaus-Jürgen Gotting 1960 in der Türkei gesammelten Mollusken und Neubeschreibung einer Paramastus-Art". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 90: 175-180.