Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Hygromiidae Scientific name Canariella hispidula | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Helicoidea Subfamily Ciliellinae Rank Species | |
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Similar Canariella, Canariella planaria, Hemicycla, Actinella, Hygromiidae | ||
Canariella hispidula
Canariella hispidula is a species of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Contents
Canariella hispidula is the type species of the genus Canariella.
Distribution
This species is endemic to the Canary Islands, specifically to Tenerife.
Shell description
The shell is moderately umbilicated, conoid, solid, light rufous above, paler below, especially towards the umbilicus. Nepionic whorls are finely granulated, the remainder closely covered with fine curved riblets, and densely infested with granules arranged in quincunx above, but somewhat irregularly below. The spire is pyramidal. Apex is acute. Suture is linear. The shell has five whorls, that are slightly flattened above, convex below, obtusely carinated at the periphery and obtusely angulated round the umbilicus, increasing regularlv, the last nearly twice as wide as the penultimate, shortly deflexed in front, and slightly constricted behind the peristome.
The aperture is semi-rotundate, oblique, margins approaching, united by a thin callus on the parietal wall. The peristome is scarcely thickened, reflexed, whitish, upper margin slightly curved, basal rounded, columellar ascending, and slightly dilated. Umbilicus moderately wide and deep, showing a portion of the penultimate whorl.
The width of the shell is 10.5–12 mm. The height of the shell is 6 mm.