Parmacella deshayesi

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Parmacella deshayesi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Parmacellidae
Genus: Parmacella
Species:
P. deshayesi
Binomial name
Parmacella deshayesi

Parmacella deshayesi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae.

Distribution[edit]

Distribution of this species include:

Description[edit]

The animal is evenly brown, in the young animals sometimes with blackish streaks or spots.[2] The mantle length is 55% of body.[2] The size of preserved specimen is up to 60 mm.[2]

The shell is thin-walled, delicate.[2] The apex is completely smooth, yellow.[2]

References[edit]

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[2]

  1. ^ (in French) Moquin-Tandon A. (1848). "Quelques mots sur l'anatomie des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux [fr] (2)5: 259-264, Plate 1.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Species summary for Parmacella deshayesi". AnimalBase, last modified 7 June 2008, accessed 1 September 2010.

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