Biology:Orthalicus undatus

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Orthalicus undatus
Orthalicus undatus jamaicensis shell.jpg
Black-and-white photo: an apertural view of the shell of Orthalicus undatus jamaicensis from Jamaica. Scale bar is 1 cm.
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Orthalicidae
Genus: Orthalicus
Species:
O. undatus
Binomial name
Orthalicus undatus
(Bruguière, 1789)

Orthalicus undatus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.

Subspecies

  • Orthalicus undatus jamaicensis (Pilsbry, 1899) - synonym: Orthalicus jamaicensis. This is the only taxon of the genus Orthalicus that has been recorded in Jamaica.[1]

References

  1. Gary Rosenberg, Igor V. Muratov 2006. Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2006 155 (1), 117-161, doi:10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1

Wikidata ☰ Q7104381 entry