Alopia glorifica

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

Alopia glorifica 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 12 mm and 22 mm, its diameter between 3.5 mm and 5 mm.

(Original description) The entire shell is plicated, with widely spaced, slightly raised whorls. It has three deep palatal folds, with the upper one being distinct and the others faint.

(Description originally in Latin of Balea glorifica) A sinistral shell, deeply rimate and fusiform, covered by an epidermis with bluish and cherry-red tones, and lightly striated. It features 8 white, convex whorls with an impressed suture. The spire is swollen, striated, and has anterior plicate ribs. The aperture is pear-shaped and rounded, with a continuous peristome that is slightly reflexed and somewhat thickened. The interior is either white or liver-colored. The spire concludes with a subtly expressed, oblique, striated lamella. The aperture wall is briefly uniplicate near the margin.

Distribution

This species occurs in Romania.

References

  1. 1 2 Alopia glorifica (Charpentier, 1852). 3 September 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. 1 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.