Anguispira alternata
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| Anguispira alternata | |
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| Engravinging of a shell of Anguispira alternata from W. G. Binney, 1878.[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Discidae |
| Genus: | Anguispira |
| Species: | A. alternata |
| Binomial name | |
| Anguispira alternata (Say, 1816) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Pyramidula alternata |
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Anguispira alternata, common name the flamed disc or flamed tigersnail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Discidae, the disk snails.
[edit] Parasites
Parasites of Anguispira alternata include:
[edit] References
- ^ Binney, William G. 1878. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 25.
- ^ Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment. "Brainworm". accessed 14 December 2010.
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