Biology:Levantina longinqua
| Levantina longinqua | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Genus: | Levantina |
| Species: | L. longinqua
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| Binomial name | |
| Levantina longinqua (Schütt & Subai, 1996)
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Levantina longinqua is a poorly known species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.[1]
The species is only known from its type series of uncertain provenance.
Description
A large Levantina species (height 19–22 mm, diameter 40–43 mm). Shell flattened and thick-walled. Colour greyish white, the five bands are fuzzy and light brown, interrupted by a white zig-zag radial pattern. Whorls are not keeled in juveniles. Last whorl abruptly descends towards aperture. Aperture a bit expanded compared to the last whorl, with a broad reflected rim. Umbilicus largely covered. Most similar to Levantina cilicica.[1]
Distribution
The distribution is unknown. The species was described based on material allegedly originating from "Hasrat-Sultan" mountains southeast of Samarkand in Uzbekistan[2] However, there is no other record of Levantina that far east and the species was never found again. The material could have actually originated from the Taurus Mountains in Turkey.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schütt, Hartwig; Subai, Peter (1996-01-15). "Revision of Assyriella P. Hesse 1908 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Helicidae: Helicinae)" (in en). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 125 (1-2): 117–161. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/125/1996/117. ISSN 0003-9284. http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/archmoll/detail/125/88939/Revision_der_Gattung_Assyriella_P_Hesse_1908_Gastr?af=crossref.
- ↑ Dohrn, Heinrich (1882). "Ueber einige centralasiatische Landschnecken". Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 9: 115-120. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16359908.
- ↑ Riedel, Adolf (1987). "Revision der Gattung Zonites MONTFORT (Gastropoda, Zonitidae): türkische Arten. Nebst Erganzungen und Verzeichnis aller Zonites-Arten". Annales Zoologici 41: 1-42, pl. 1-9. https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/72976/edition/58896?language=en.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q106250979 entry
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