Pleurodonte nigrescens
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| Apertural view of a shell of Pleurodonte nigrescens. The height of the shell is 11.1 mm. | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | P. nigrescens
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| Pleurodonte nigrescens (Wood, 1828)
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Pleurodonte nigrescens is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae.
Distribution[edit]
The distribution of Pleurodonte nigrescens includes:
Description[edit]
Pleurodonte nigrescens differs from all other Dominican Pleurodonte species by the characteristic parietal tooth opposite the basal teeth in the aperture.[1] The shell can be chesnut-brown with fine axial lines or purple-black with a purple aperture.[1]
Ecology[edit]
Pleurodonte nigrescens lives in damp leaf litter on the forest floor. This species appears to prefer relatively undisturbed habitats, especially in rain forest at higher altitudes in Dominica.[1]
References[edit]
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [1]
- ^ a b c d e f g Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine". Zoologische Mededelingen 83