Achatinella sowerbyana
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | A. sowerbyana
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| Achatinella sowerbyana Pfeiffer, 1855
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Achatinella sowerbyana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae. This species is endemic to Hawaii.
Shell description
The sinistral or dextral shell is imperforate, conic-oblong and solid. The shell has 6 whorls. The spire is slightly convexly-conic and the apex subacute. The suture is margined and the whorls are slightly convex. The glossy color is tawny buff and slightly streaked with a deeper shade. The aperture is oblique and white within. The strong columellar fold is superior, twisted, and roseate. The peristome is rose-lipped with the outer margin shortly expanded and columellar margin dilated and adnate.[2]
The height of the shell is 18.0 mm. The width of the shell is 9.0 mm.[2]
References
This article incorporates public domain text (a public domain work of the United States Government) from reference.[2]
- ^ Hadfield M.; Hadway L. (1996). "Achatinella sowerbyana". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996. IUCN: e.T197A13048918. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T197A13048918.en. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|last-author-amp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (1992) Endangered Species Recovery Plan for the O’ahu Tree Snails of the Genus Achatinella. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon, 64 pp. + 64 pp. of appendices + 5 figures. PDF