Plectostoma laidlawi
Appearance
Plectostoma laidlawi | |
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Pteroptyx cf. valida larva attacking Plectostoma laidlawi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
Family: | Diplommatinidae |
Genus: | Plectostoma |
Species: | P. laidlawi
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Binomial name | |
Plectostoma laidlawi (Sykes, 1902)
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Plectostoma laidlawi is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.
Ecology
[edit]Predators of Plectostoma laidlawi include larvae of Pteroptyx valida.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Liew T.-S. & Schilthuizen M. (2014). "Association between shell morphology of micro-land snails (genus Plectostoma) and their predator’s predatory behaviour". PeerJ 2: e329. doi:10.7717/peerj.329.