Cochlicopa lubrica
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| A live Cochlicopa lubrica | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | C. lubrica
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| Cochlicopa lubrica (O. F. Müller, 1774)
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Cochlicopa lubrica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlicopidae.
Description
The 5–7.5 x 2.4–2.9 mm shell has 4–5 moderately convex whorls.The aperture inside is slightly thickened. There are no apertural teeth and there is no umbilicus. Shell colour is horny yellowish to reddish brown. The animal is greyish or blackish, with dark tentacles .
This species can be hard to differentiate from the similar species Cochlicopa lubricella.
Taxonomy
Cochlicopa repentina Hudec, 1960 has been evaluated as a form of Cochlicopa lubrica in 1994.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs in countries and islands including:
References
- ^ IUCN (2007). 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 September 2008.
- ^ "Cochlicopa lubrica (O.F. Muller 1774)". Fauna Europaea, accessed 10 September 2010.
- ^ Armbruster G. & Schlegel M. (1994). "The land-snail species of Cochlicopa (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Cochlicopidae): presentation of taxon-specific allozyme patterns, and evidence for a high level of self-fertilization". J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Research 32: 282–296.
- ^ http://kampinoski-pn.gov.pl/monitoring/2008/10A_slimaki_2008d.pdf
- ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91–109.
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cochlicopa lubrica.
- Cochlicopa lubrica at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
- "Cionella lubrica (Müller, 1774): Glossy Pillar". Terrestrial Gastropods of the Columbia Basin, British Columbia]
- "Cionella lubrica (Muller), Glossy pillar snail – Biodiversity of Great Smoky Mountains National Park"