Alopia canescens

Alopia canescens
Shell of Alopia canescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Genus: Alopia
Species:
A. canescens
Binomial name
Alopia canescens
(Charpentier, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Alopia (Alopia) canescens (Charpentier, 1852) · alternative representation
  • Clausilia (Alopia) canescens Charpentier, 1852
  • Clausilia canescens Charpentier, 1852 (original combination)
  • Clausilia glorifica Rossmässler, 1856 (junior synonym)

Alopia canescens is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae.

Subspecies

Description

The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 14 mm, its diameter is 4 mm.

(Original description in Latin) It differs from Alopia livida straminicollis (Charpentier, 1852), to which it is very similar in appearance, by having a more constricted, somewhat turreted-fusiform shell, entirely smooth and frosted. It lacks palatal folds.

Distribution

This species occurs in Romania.

References

  1. 1 2 Alopia canescens (Charpentier, 1852). 3 September 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ↑ Charpentier, J. de (1852). "Essai d'une classification naturelle des Clausilies". Journal de Conchyliologie. 3 (4): 364. Retrieved 3 September 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.