Alcadia spectabilis explained

Alcadia spectabilis is a species of an operculate land snail, terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae.

Description

The height of the shell attains, its greatest diameter .

(Original description in Latin)The conical-globose shell is somewhat thin, smooth and shiny. It is yellow with a darker or blood-red peripheral band, or pink with a blood-red band. The spire is convex-conical with a sharp, dark blood-red apex. It has 5 slightly convex whorls, with the body whorl rounded and scarcely equal to the spire. The columella is short, receding, slightly toothed at the base, and emits a circumscribed callus. The aperture is oblique and broadly semi-oval. The peristome is thin and expanded, with the basal margin forming a slightly right angle with the columella. The operculum is transparent, purplish, and pale on the columellar side.^[1]

Distribution

This species lives in Cuba.^[2]

Further reading

• Richling . I. . Glaubrecht . M. . The types of Neotropical Helicinidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neritopsina) in the Malacological Collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: an annotated catalogue, with emphasis on Cuban land snails . Zoosystematics and Evolution . 2008 . 84 . 2 . 265–310.
• Breure . A.S.H. . Survey of the land Mollusca of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. In: T. van der Hammen & P. M. Ruiz (eds.). La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia), Transecto Buritaca-La Cumbre. . Studies on Tropical Andean Ecosystems . 1984 . 2 . 487–500.
• Pfeiffer . L. . Zur Molluskenfauna von Cuba . Malakozoologische Blätter. 1859 . 6 . 3 . 66–96 .
• Book: Wagner . A.J. . Die Familie der Helicinidae . Küster . H. C. . Kobelt . W. . Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, Neue Folge. Ersten Bandes, achtzehnte Abtheilung, zweiter Theil. . 1908 . Bauer & Rasoe . Nürnberg .

Notes and References

1. Pfeiffer . L. . Zur Molluskenfauna von Cuba. . Malakozoologische Blätter. 1858 . 5 . 2 . 37–49 . 7 August 2024.
2. Espinosa . J. A. . Robinson . D. G . Annotated checklist of the terrestrial mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Hispaniola Island. . Novitates Caribaea . 2021 . 17 . 71–146 .