Pacificella baldwini
| Pacificella baldwini | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Achatinellidae |
| Genus: | Pacificella |
| Species: | P. baldwini
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| Binomial name | |
| Pacificella baldwini (Ancey, 1889)
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Pacificella baldwini is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 2.5 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is oblong-ovate in shape, imperforate, thin, translucent, horn-colored, and glossy, appearing under a lens as only very faintly striated. The spire is conoid and rises slightly above the aperture, with a somewhat sharp apex. There are four convex whorls, rapidly increasing in size, the body whorl being oblong. The aperture is sharply oblong-ovate, not compressed externally, and bears on the parietal wall a rather small, coiling lamella. The columella is thickened, whitish, toothless, and obliquely twisted, continuing anteriorly into the margin. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs on Oahu Island, Hawaii.
References
- ^ a b "MolluscaBase - Pacificella baldwini (Ancey, 1889)". www.molluscabase.org. Retrieved 2026-02-08.
- ^ Ancey, C. F. (1889). "Étude sur la faune malacologique des îles Sandwich". Bulletins de la Société Malacologique de France. 6: 238. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
- 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.
External links
- 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. pp. i-xi, 1-302, pls 1-55. Philadelphia: Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences. p. 144. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Goulding, T. C.; Yeung, N. W.; Slapcinsky, J.; Strong, E. E.; Kim, J. R.; Brook, F. J.; Hayes, K. A (2023). "Tiny snails with large distributions: Systematics and delimitation of the Pacific land snails Pacificella and Lamellidea (Stylommatophora: Achatinellidae: Pacificellinae)". Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. 2 (2): 18.
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