Adelopoma occidentale explained

Adelopoma occidentale is a species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae. ^[1]

Description

(Original description) The sinistral shell is elongately turreted and scarcely sinuate. Its sculpture has a somewhat distant well marked costulation The colour is white. The spire is rather attenuate and had a blunt apex. The suture is deep. The shell contains six whorls with tumid sides. The body whorl is small, the penultimate whorl much the broadest, those above becoming gradually swollen to the apex. The aperture is small, subvertical and round. The peristome is continuous, closely double. The columellar margin is weak, no tooth, the twist on columella seen within the aperture. ^[2]

Distribution

This species is found in Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.

References

• Robinson, D. G., Fields, A. & Zimmerman, F. J. (2004). The terrestrial malacofauna of Trinidad and Tobago. Interim report. 1-21.

External links

• Bartsch, P. (1942). The cyclophorid mollusks of the West Indies, exclusive of Cuba. In: de la Torre, C.; Bartsch, P.; Morrison, J. P. E. The cyclophorid operculate land mollusks of America. United States National Museum Bulletin. 181(2): 43-141
• Kobelt W. (1902). Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. 16. Lieferung. Mollusca. Cyclophoridae. Das Tierreich. XXXIX + 662 pp., 1 map.

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Adelopoma occidentale (Godwin-Austen, 1886). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1434768 on 2024-04-13
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13069144#page/5/mode/1up Godwin-Austen, H. H. (1882-1920). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. Supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. London, Taylor & Francis.