Strobilops labyrinthicus
Appearance
Strobilops labyrinthicus | |
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The shell of Strobilops labyrinthicus | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Species: | S. labyrinthicus
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Binomial name | |
Strobilops labyrinthicus (Say, 1817)
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Strobilops labyrinthica |
Strobilops labyrinthicus, common name the maze pinecone, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Strobilopsidae.
Its shell color is reddish brown and it has a height of 1.7-1.8 mm with a diameter of 2.3 mm. Its aperture is semicircular in shape, peristome reflected, brown.[1] Older descriptions refer to it as Strobilops Labyrinthica.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species of land snail occurs in the Eastern United States, from Texas northward to British America, Manitoba (Carberry), Ontario (Moose Factory) in Canada.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Taft, Celeste. The Shell-Bearing Land Snails of Ohio. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey. Vol 1 No. 3. Published by the Ohio State University 1961. p. 54
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Strobilops labyrinthica (Say, 1817). Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1366516 on 2021-11-26
- ^ Dall W. H. 1905. Alaska, Volume XIII, Land and Fresh Water Mollusks. New York, Daubleday, Page & Complany, pages 1-157, page 27.
- ^ Branson B. A. (1961). "The Recent Gastropoda of Oklahoma, III. Terrestrial Species: Pupillidae, Carychiidae, Strobilopsidae and Oligyridae". Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science for 1960: 41: 45-69. PDF.