Biology:Calocochlea pulcherrima

Short description: Species of gastropod

Calocochlea pulcherrima
Shell of Calocochlea pulcherrima from Philippines at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Camaenidae
Genus:	Calocochlea
Species:	C. pulcherrima
Binomial name
Calocochlea pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841)
Synonyms
Calocochlea luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (junior synonym) Calocochlea luzonica luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (junior synonym) Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) chrysacme Quadras & Möllendorff, 1893 (junior synonym) Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (superseded combination) Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) luzonica luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (superseded combination) Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination) Cochlostyla chrysacme Quadras & Möllendorff, 1893 (junior synonym) Cochlostyla luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (junior synonym) Cochlostyla pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination) Helicostyla (Calocochlea) pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination) Helicostyla pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination) Helix (Cochlogena) pulcherrima G. B. Sowerby I, 1841 (original combination) Helix luzonica Reeve, 1842 (junior synonym) Helix luzonica L. Pfeiffer, 1842 (junior synonym) Helix pulcherrima G. B. Sowerby I, 1841

Calocochlea pulcherrima is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.

This species is very common in the Philippines . The shell is between 31 and 46 millimeters long with brown spiral bands and a cream-colored background.

References

• Pfeiffer, L. (1842). Descriptions of new species of shells belonging to the genera Helix and Bulimus, collected by H. Cuming, Esq, in the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 10 (113): 84–89. London
• ABBOTT, R.T., 1989: Compendium of landshells: a colour guide to more than 2,000 of the World's Terrestrial Shells. American Malacologists Inc., Burlington, USA.

External links

• Sowerby, G. B., I. (1841). Descriptions of new species of the family Helicidae, collected by Mr. H. Cuming in the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 8: 87-91, 96-104, 116-118
• 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. Vol. 1: 1-195, pls 1-129; Vol. 2: 1-338, pls 130-300
• Richardson, L. (1983). Bradybaenidae: Catalog of species. Tryonia. 9: 1-253
• Quadras, J. F. & Möllendorf, O. F. von. (1893). Diagnoses specierum novarum ex parte septentrionali insulae Luzon. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 25(11-12): 169 - 184
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