Kingdom Animalia Family Oxychilidae Genus Oxychilus Phylum Mollusca Rank Species | Superfamily Gastrodontoidea Subfamily Oxychilinae Scientific name Oxychilus alliarius Higher classification Oxychilus | |
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Similar Oxychilus, Oxychilus cellarius, Oxychilidae, Oxychilus draparnaudi, Babylonia areolata | ||
Oxychilus alliarius, common name the "garlic snail" or "garlic glass-snail", is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.
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The specific name alliarius refer to the Allium that means garlic. The common name also refer to the fact that when this animal is disturbed, it gives off a strong smell similar to that of raw garlic.
Distribution
This species occurs in a number of countries and islands including:
Non-indigenous distribution
The non-indigenous distribution of Oxychilus alliarius includes:
Description
The 3.5-4 × 5-7 mm shell has 4-4.5 slightly convex whorls. The last whorl is often weakly descending near aperture. The whorls from whorl 3 onwards are more narrowly coiled than in Oxychilus cellarius, the last whorl descending lower. The umbilicus is wide (1/6 of diameter). The shell is smooth, shiny, weakly reddish to greenish brown. The animal is blackish blue. Anatomy: The internal ornamentation of the proximal penis consisting of not more than four longitudinal pleats, usually straight, sometimes slightly wavy, but never laterally branched or papillate.