Aegopinella denudata
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Gastrodontidae |
| Genus: | Aegopinella |
| Species: | †A. denudata
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| †Aegopinella denudata (Reuss, 1849)
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Aegopinella denudata is an extinct species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae, the glass snails.[1]
Description
[edit]The diameter of the shell attains 14 mm (0.6 in), its height 4.5 mm (0.2 in).[citation needed]
(Original description in Latin) The solid shell is depressed and flat spire and a broad, open umbilicus. It is shiny and shows microscopically small spiral striations. It features 5.5 convex whorls. The sutures are moderately impressed. The wide and elongate-ovoid aperture is depressed-lunate. The body whorl expands rapidly. The peristome is acute, simple, and straight. It exhibits a creeping growth pattern.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of this extinct species were found in Miocene strata in the Czech Republic.
References
[edit]- ^ WoRMS. "Aegopinella denudata (Reuss, 1849)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ Reuss, A.E. (1849). Beschreibung der fossilen Ostracoden und Mollusken der tertiären Süsswasserschichten des nördlichen Böhmens (In: Reuss, A.E., Meyer, H.v.). Palaeontographica. 2, 16-42.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Further reading
[edit]- Babor, J.F. (1897). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der tertiären Binnenconchylienfauna Böhmens. I." Sitzungsberichten der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe. 63: 1–18.
- Harzhauser, M.; Neubauer, T.A.; Georgopoulou, E.; Harl, J. (2014). "The Early Miocene (Burdigalian) mollusc fauna of the North Bohemian Lake (Most Basin)". Bulletin of Geosciences. 89 (4): 819–908. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1503.
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