Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Helicoidea Scientific name Gittenbergeria turriplana | Phylum Mollusca Order Stylommatophora Family Trissexodontidae Rank Species | |
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Similar Oestophora, Trissexodontidae, Suboestophora, Xerotricha, Trochoidea | ||
Gittenbergeria turriplana
Gittenbergeria turriplana of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trissexodontidae.
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Distribution
This species is endemic to Algarve, southern Portugal. It is frequent species in Algarve and locally very common.
Description
The shell is brown with a characterictic microsculpture, depressed with a strong keel. The first whorls are almost flat. The aperture is narrow. Margin reflected and turned outward. There are two teeth on the lower edge corresponding to 2 conspicuous depressions on the outer shell. The umbilicus is open and excentric.
The width of the shell is 12–14 mm. The height of the shell is 5–6 mm.
Animal is almost black with a lighter foot, upper tentacles very long.
Ecology
It lives in low altitudes on calcareous substrate, close to the coast. It is frequent at old walls and in old gardens and parks in cities, also in shrublands and cultivated areas.