Candaharia rutellum

Candaharia rutellum
	Drawing of lateral view of preserved specimen of Candaharia rutellum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra; clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Parmacelloidea
Family:	Parmacellidae
Genus:	Candaharia
Species:	C. rutellum
Binomial name
	Candaharia rutellum; (Hutton, 1849)[1]
Synonyms
	Parmacella (Proparmacella) rutellum (Hutton, 1849)

Candaharia rutellum is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae.

Distribution

The distribution of Candaharia rutellum includes mountains in Central Asia: Tien-Shan, Alai and Pamir-Darvaz.[2]

Afghanistan[2][3]
Pakistan[3]
Kyrgyzstan[3]
Tajikistan[3]

Other known areas of distribution include:

The surroundings of Saint Petersburg, Russia.[2][3]

The type locality for this species is Kandahar, Afghanistan.[2]

Description

External morphology of Candaharia rutellum:
L - left shell lap of mantle
ML - left mantle lobe
TE - upper tentacle (ommatophore)
TV - lower tentacle
J - mouth
P - penis
LP - pneumostome

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References

Hutton T. (1849-1850). "Notices of some Land and Fresh Water Shells occurring in Afghanistan". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (2)18: 649-661, 967. type description is on pages 649-650.
Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.
Wiktor A. & Jurkowska J. (2007). "The collection of terrestrial slugs (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) at the Museum of Natural History, Wrocław University (Poland)". Folia Malacologica 15(2): 83-93.

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[1] Hutton T. (1849-1850). "Notices of some Land and Fresh Water Shells occurring in Afghanistan". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (2)18: 649-661, 967. type description is on pages 649-650.

[Kantor_2009-2] Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.

[Wiktor_2007-3] Wiktor A. & Jurkowska J. (2007). "The collection of terrestrial slugs (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) at the Museum of Natural History, Wrocław University (Poland)". Folia Malacologica 15(2): 83-93.