Plectostoma concinnum
Appearance
Plectostoma concinnum | |
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Atopos slug attacking Plectostoma concinnum by shell-drilling. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
Family: | Diplommatinidae |
Genus: | Plectostoma |
Species: | P. concinnum
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Binomial name | |
Plectostoma concinnum (Fulton, 1901)
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Plectostoma concinnum is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.
Description
[edit]Ecology
[edit]Predators of Plectostoma concinnum include slugs of the genus Atopos.[1]
References
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- ^ Liew T.-S. & Schilthuizen M. (2014). "Association between shell morphology of micro-land snails (genus Plectostoma) and their predator’s predatory behaviour". PeerJ 2: e329. doi:10.7717/peerj.329.