Leiostracus carnavalescus
Appearance
Leiostracus carnavalescus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Simpulopsidae |
Genus: | Leiostracus |
Species: | L. carnavalescus
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Binomial name | |
Leiostracus carnavalescus Simone & Salvador, 2016
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Leiostracus carnavalescus, the harlequin snail, is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Simpulopsidae.[1]
This species is endemic to Brazil.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Leiostracus carnavalescus Simone & Salvador, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877283 on 2020-05-04
- ^ Simone, Luiz R. L.; Salvador, Rodrigo B. (2016). "Taxonomical study on a sample of land snails from Nanuque (Minas Gerais, Brazil), with descriptions of three new species". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A. 9: 9–30. doi:10.18476/sbna.v9.a2. S2CID 87220252.