Meridolum middenense
Appearance
Meridolum middenense | |
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An empty shell at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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Species: | M. middenense
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Meridolum middenense McLauchlan, 1954[1]
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Meridolum middenense is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae. This species is endemic to Australia.[2]
Ecology
This species lives in open forests in the leaf litter.[3]
References
- ^ McLauchlan C. F. (1954). "Three new land shells from New South Wales". Australian Zoologist 12: 39.
- ^ "Meridolum middenense". Discoverlife.org.
- ^ "Species Meridolum middenense McLauchlan, 1954". Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 24 March 2011.