Pleurodonte nigrescens

Pleurodonte nigrescens
	Apertural view of a shell of Pleurodonte nigrescens. The height of the shell is 11.1 mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Pleurodontidae
Genus:	Pleurodonte
Species:	P. nigrescens
Binomial name
	Pleurodonte nigrescens; (Wood, 1828)
Synonyms
	Helix nigrescens; Helix (Dentellaria) nigrescens;

Pleurodonte nigrescens is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae.

Distribution

The distribution of Pleurodonte nigrescens includes:

Description

Pleurodonte nigrescens differs from all other Dominican Pleurodonte species by the characteristic parietal tooth opposite the basal teeth in the aperture.^[1] The shell can be chesnut-brown with fine axial lines or purple-black with a purple aperture.^[1]

Ecology

Pleurodonte nigrescens lives in damp leaf litter on the forest floor. This species appears to prefer relatively undisturbed habitats, especially in rain forest at higher altitudes in Dominica.^[1]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference ^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83

[Robinson_2009-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species". Zoologische Mededelingen 83

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