Auriculella flavida
| Auriculella flavida | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Auriculella flavida (sinistral and dextral specimens) (holotype) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Achatinellidae |
| Genus: | Auriculella |
| Species: | A. flavida
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| Binomial name | |
| Auriculella flavida C. M. Cooke, 1915
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Auriculella flavida is a species of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 6.2 mm, its diameter 3.1 mm.
(Original description) The shell is minutely perforate and can be either dextral (right-handed) or sinistral (left-handed). It is ovately conic in shape and possesses a naphthalene-yellow hue. The structure is very thin, slightly diaphanous, and glossy; when viewed under a lens, the surface appears minutely striate with growth lines and is marked by extremely fine revolving striae. The spire is conic, ending in an obtuse apex. The suture is simple and hardly impressed. There are 6 1/2 whorls, which are slightly convex; the embryonic whorls are rather large and rounded, while the body whorl is rotund and saccate, though it tapers slightly below. The aperture is broadly oval and is scarcely oblique. Inside the aperture, the parietal lamella is white and very small. The columella is nearly straight. The lip is very slightly thickened, featuring an arcuate outer margin and a reflexed columellar margin. Finally, the parietal callus is thin, and the moderate umbilicus is rimate (slit-like).[2]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Molokai Island, (Hawaii).
References
- ^ Auriculella flavida C. M. Cooke, 1915. 17 January 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Pilsbry, H. A. & Cooke, C. M. (1914–1916). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 23: Appendix to Amastridae, Tornatellinidae, Index to vols. XXI-XXIII. Philadelphia: Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences. p. 103. Retrieved 17 January 2026.
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- Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. vi + 248 pp. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.