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Carpathica calophana (Westerlund, 1881)

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

Scientific synonyms

Daudebardia calophana

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Description

Shell yellowish, transparent, weakly striated and fine spiral lines, very shiny, with a white layer covering up to 75 % of the inner side, 0.7-1.0 whorls, apex very small, less than 20 % of shell length, aperture very oblique and oval, upper margin curved, columellar margin long, almost vertical, thickened on upper side (membrane of apertural margin at lower side near embryonal whorls with one peak), lower margin concave, umbilicus covered.
Animal whitish to dark bluish grey, slightly paler down to the sides, with longitudinal structures, sole dirty whitish or with yellowish red hue.
Penis with appendix, vas deferens inserts laterally at appendix, retractor at the terminal end of the appendix, spermatheca duct can insert either in free part of vagina or in the part surrounded by the vaginal gland, oviduct can be slightly thinner than free vagina
Welter-Schultes, F., 2012. European non-marine molluscs.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [171785]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Carpathica calophana (Westerlund, 1881)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Carpathica calophana Westerlund, 1881]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013
EN de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea 2.4 [http://www.faunaeur.org] [as Carpathica calophana (Westerlund, 1881)]
Data retrieved on: 9 March 2012
CZ Pfleger V. (1999): České názvy živočichů III. Měkkýši (Mollusca), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 108 pp. [as Carpathica calophana (WESTERLUND, 1881)]
Data retrieved on: 11 November 2013
CZ Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010): Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky, Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1–37. [as Carpathica calophana (Westerlund, 1881)]

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