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Charopella zela ( Inglês )

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Charopella zela, also known as the Mount Gower banded pinwheel snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the pinwheel snail family, that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.[1]

Description

The shell of these snails are 1.6–1.9 mm in height, with a diameter of 3 mm. The colour is cream with dark orange-brown flammulations (flame-like markings). The shape is discoidal with a moderately raised spire, whorls shouldered with an angulate periphery, with coarse, moderately closely-spaced radial ribs. The umbilicus is moderately widely open. The aperture is rounded and lunate. The animal is unknown.[1]

Distribution and habitat

This very rare snail is known only from the summit of Mount Gower and the upper slopes of Mount Lidgbird, and has never been collected alive.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.
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Charopella zela: Brief Summary ( Inglês )

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Charopella zela, also known as the Mount Gower banded pinwheel snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the pinwheel snail family, that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.

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