Cochlodina laminata explained

Cochlodina laminata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.^[1]

Subspecies:

• Cochlodina laminata albanica S. H. F. Jaeckel, 1956
• Cochlodina laminata grossa (Rossmässler, 1835)
• Cochlodina laminata insulana E. Gittenberger, 1967
• Cochlodina laminata laminata (Montagu, 1803)
• Cochlodina laminata nana (Möllendorff, 1873)
• Cochlodina laminata oreinos (A. J. Wagner, 1914)
• Cochlodina laminata partita (Westerlund, 1892)

Distribution

This species occurs in much of Europe, including:

• The Czech Republic
• Bulgaria
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Slovakia
• Ukraine^[2]
• Ireland
• Great Britain

Description

Like all species in the family Clausiliidae, Cochlodina laminata has a clausilium or "door". The second image shows the shape of the clausilium in this species.

The shell is brown to cherry red, nearly smooth and shiny. The parietalis is small, the columellaris is more prominent, the palatal callus is weak, the subcolumellaris is visible in an oblique view. .^[3]

The weight of the adult live snail is about 138±5 mg.^[4]

References

• Sysoev, A. V. & Schileyko, A. A. (2009). Land snails and slugs of Russia and adjacent countries. Sofia/Moskva (Pensoft). 312 pp., 142 plates

External links

• Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16
• Cochlodina laminata at Animalbase taxonomy,short description (including diagnosis), distribution, biology,status (threats), images

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cochlodina A. Férussac, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933875 on 2020-08-25
2. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
3. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=179 Animalbase (Welter-Schultes)
4. Boch . Steffen . Prati . Daniel . Werth . Silke . Rüetschi . Jörg . Fischer . Markus . Evans . Darren Mark . amp . Lichen endozoochory by snails . PLOS ONE . 2011 . 6 . 4 . e18770 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0018770. 21533256 . 3076439 . free .