Melloconcha prensa

Melloconcha prensa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Euconulidae
Subfamily:	Microcystinae
Tribe:	Liardetiini
Genus:	Melloconcha
Species:	M. prensa
Binomial name
	Melloconcha prensa; Iredale, 1944
	Location of Lord Howe Island

Melloconcha prensa, also known as the flattened glass-snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.^[2]

Description

The discoidal shell of the mature snail is 3.7–4.5 mm in height, with a diameter of 6.8–8 mm, and a low spire. It is smooth, glossy and pale golden-brown in colour The whorls are rounded, with finely incised spiral grooves. It has an ovately lunate aperture and closed umbilicus.^[2]

Distribution and habitat

This uncommon snail occurs on the slopes and summits of the southern mountains, where it inhabits rainforest and moist woodland, in litter and in the axils between the stems and trunks of palms.^[2]

References

^ Iredale, Tom (1944). "The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island". Australian Zoologist. 10 (3): 299–334.
^ ^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.

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[iredale44-1] Iredale, Tom (1944). "The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island". Australian Zoologist. 10 (3): 299–334.

[h&k-2] 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.

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