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Bulimulus diaphanus Pfeiffer, 1855

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

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Bulimulus diaphanus

Author: Dall, W.H. & Simpson, C.T.

Taxon in country check-lists*

North America: Jamaica, Puerto Rico

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Description

Shell perforate, thin, fragile, covered with a delicate, horn-colored epidermis, which is pinched up throughout into broken, revolving line; whorls six, somewhat rounded; the apex punctately reticulated; aperture ovate, about three-sevenths of the length of the shell; outer lip thin, not expanded; columella reflexed over the umbilicus.
Height, 16; diameter, 7 mm.
Under rocks in pastures, Bayamon, Porto Rico; Caguas, under bricks in a garden.
Dall, W.H. & Simpson, C.T., 1901. The Mollusca of Porto Rico.
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 Bulimulus diaphanus Pfeiffer, 1855]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013
EN Rosenberg G., Muratov I. V. (2006): Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 155(1):117-161. [as Bulimulus diaphanus (Pfeiffer, 1855)]

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