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Laemodonta cubensis (Pfeiffer, 1854)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Pulmonata - pulmonates »  family Ellobiidae »  genus Laemodonta

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Laemodonta cubensis

Author: Clench, W.J.

Laemodonta cubensis

Author: Rehder, H.A.

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Description

Shell usually finely umbilicate, small, being about 3.3 mm. (about 0,125 inch) in length, ovate-conic, sculptured and rather thin in structure. Whorls 5 to 6 and flattened on the spire. Color a light straw-yellow, the apex being white. Apex enlarged and formed at nearly a right angle to the shell axis. Spire conic and moderately extended. Suture relatively indistinct owing to the spiral sculpture and the flattened whorls of the spire. Aperture auriculate with the outer lip simple and having two well developed teeth. Inner lip with three well developed teeth, two being on the parietal wall and one on the columella. Sculpture consisting of numerous fine, incised, spiral lines which are crossed by somewhat finer growth lines. Length 2,5 mm; width 1,6 mm.
Clench, W.J., 1964. The genera Pedipes and Laemodonta in the Western Atlantic.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Laemodonta cubensis Pfeiffer, 1854]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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