Aplexa venezuelensis
| Aplexa venezuelensis | |
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| Shell of Aplexa venezuelensis (paratype at the Paleontological Research Institution) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Physidae |
| Genus: | Aplexa |
| Species: | A. venezuelensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Aplexa venezuelensis (E. von Martens, 1859)
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Aplexa venezuelensis is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae, a family which are sometimes known as the bladder snails.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 18 mm, its diameter 10 mm.
(Original description in Latin) This shell is ovate and lustrous and contains five whorls.It features a thin, striped, pale horn-colored surface. It tapers to a sharp, dark apex, and its suture is ridged and cross-hatched with a rusty hue. The oblong aperture narrows gradually upwards. It accounts for five-sixths of the shell's total length, and it possesses a small, white columellar fold.[2]
Distribution
This species occurs in Venezuela.
References
- ^ Aplexa venezuelensis (E. von Martens, 1859). 18 September 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Martens, E. von (1859). "Ueber einige Land- und Süsswasser-Schnecken aus Venezuela". Malakozoologische Blätter. 6: 66. Retrieved 18 September 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
- Taylor, D.W. (2003). "Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila); biogeography, classification, morphology" (PDF). Revista de Biología Tropical. 51 (Suppl. 1).