Biology:Leptopoma perlucidum

Short description: Species of mollusc

Leptopoma perlucidum
Shell of Leptopoma perlucidum (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Cyclophoridae
Genus:	Leptopoma
Species:	L. perlucidum
Binomial name
Leptopoma perlucidum (Grateloup, 1840)
Synonyms
25 synonyms Cyclostoma nitidum Sowerby, G.B. II, 1843 (junior synonym) Cyclostoma pellucida Grateloup, 1840 (typographic error on page 454 for "perlucidum"; not an available name) Cyclostoma perlucida Grateloup, 1840 (original combination) Cyclostoma vitreum Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cyclostoma vitreum Draparnaud, 1801; considered as a distinct species in the Solomon Islands by Delsaerdt (2016)) Cyclostoma vitreum Lesson, 1831 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cyclostoma vitreum Draparnaud, 1801) Leptopoma (Leptopoma) cinctellum L. Pfeiffer, 1862 (junior synonym) Leptopoma (Leptopoma) lowi L. Pfeiffer, 1858 (junior synonym) Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum (Lesson, 1831)· accepted, alternate representation Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum var. lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (junior synonym) Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum var. levis Hidalgo, 1886 (junior synonym) Leptopoma cinctellum L. Pfeiffer, 1862 (junior synonym) Leptopoma lowi L. Pfeiffer, 1858 (junior synonym) Leptopoma nitidum (Sowerby, G.B. II, 1843) (junior synonym) Leptopoma nitidum faber Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym) Leptopoma nitidum sanctum Iredale, 1943 (junior synonym) Leptopoma nitidum ultra Iredale, 1937 (junior synonym) Leptopoma nitidum weeksi Bartsch, 1919 (junior synonym) Leptopoma perlucida (Grateloup, 1840) (incorrect gender of species name) Leptopoma perlucidum levis Hidalgo, 1886 (junior synonym) Leptopoma perlucidum var. lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (basionym) Leptopoma vitrea (Lesson, 1831) (incorrect gender of species name) Leptopoma vitreum (Lesson, 1831) (invalid: based on a preoccupied original name) Leptopoma vitreum lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (junior synonym) Leptopoma vitreum var. lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (original rank) Leptopoma vitreum var. levis Hidalgo, 1886 (basionym)

Leptopoma perlucidum is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Cyclophoridae.

Apertural view of the shell of Leptopoma perlucidum

Distribution

This species occurs in Indonesia, Sabah (Malaysia), the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Australia.

Description

The shell width and height is about 14 mm (0.6 in) in females and 13 mm (0.5 in) in males. The color of the shell is actually translucently milky-white, and the green color is from the mantle.

References

• Vermeulen, J. J. (1999). Notes on the non-marine molluscs of the island of Borneo 9. The genera Cyclophorus, Leptopoma, and Craspedotropis (Gastropoda Prosobranchia: Cyclophoridae). Basteria. 63: 139–163.
• Delsaerdt A. , 2016 Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Vol. III. Trochomorphidae and systematical review of all other families. Ancona: L'Informatore Piceno. 160 pp

External links

• Grateloup, J.P.S. de. (1840 ["1839"]). Note sur un mémoire relatif à des molluques exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Actes de la Société Linnéene de Bordeaux. 11 : 161–170
• Reeve, L. A. (1841–1842). Conchologia Systematica, or complete system of conchology; in which the Lepades and conchiferous Mollusca are described and classified according to their natural organization and habits. Longman, Brown, Green, & Longman's, London
• Lesson R.P. (1830–1831). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, 2(1)
• Pfeiffer, L. (1858). Monographia Pneumonopomorum viventium. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium hujus ordinis generum et specierum hodie cognitarum, accedente fossilium enume-ratione. Supplementum primum. i–vi, 1–249. Cassellis: Theodori Fischeri / London: Williams & Norgate / Paris: Friedr. Klincksieck
• Pfeiffer, L. (1862). Descriptions of Sixteen New Species of Land-shells from the Collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 29 (25)
• Iredale, T. (1941). A basic list of the land Mollusca of Papua. The Australian Zoologist. 10(1): 51–94, pls. 3–4
• Bartsch, P. (1919). Critical remarks on Philippine landshells with descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 32: 15–19
• Phung, Chee-Chean; Yu, Fred Tuh Yit; Liew, Thor-Seng (2017). "A checklist of land snails from the west coast islands of Sabah, Borneo (Mollusca, Gastropoda)". ZooKeys (673): 49–104. doi:10.3897/zookeys.673.12422. PMID 28769672. Bibcode: 2017ZooK..673...49P. 

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