Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Odontostomidae Scientific name Anostoma deshayesianum | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Orthalicoidea Genus Anostoma Rank Species | |
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Anostoma deshayesianum is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae.
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Distribution
This species occurs in Brazil.
Shell description
The shell of this species is orbiculate-globose, lightly striate, hardly shining, covered with a corneous epidermis. The shell is composed of 5 convex whorls. The spire is obtuse. The suture is hardly impressed, not marginate, bordered below by a blackish band. The last whorl is globose, not carinated, divided by a submedian blackish band above, the upper part having only a few spots near the periphery, the base with numerous brown spots arranged concentrically.
The shell aperture is semilunar and a little oblique. The columellar (parietal) margin is arcuate, convex, and three-toothed. The median tooth is the most strongly developed. The peristome is white, reflexed, and has six equidistant and equal white teeth, which are violet-tinted at their bases.
The width of adult shells is 33 mm, the height is 18 mm.