Megalena crassa

Megalena crassa, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Enidae.

Megalena crassa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Enoidea
Family:
Enidae
Subfamily:
Eninae
Tribe:
Enini
Genus:
Megalena

Hausdorf, 1999[1]
Species:
M. crassa
Binomial name
Megalena crassa
(Retowski, 1887)[2]
Synonyms
  • Buliminus (Zebrina?) crassus Retowski, 1887
  • Paramastus ? goettingi Forcart, 1961[3]

Megalena is a monotypic genus, i.e. it contains only one species, Megalena crassa and therefore this species is also the type species.[1]

The generic name is composed from the prefix mega-, which means "large" from the ancient Greek language, and from the suffix -ena, for which the etymological origin is unknown.[1]

Specimens of this species are stored in collections in Europe: Germany (Senckenberg Museum, Institute of Zoology and Museum of Zoology of University of Hamburg), Poland (Institute of Zoology of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warszawa) and in the Netherlands.[1]

Distribution

This species is known only from a few individuals which were found in northwestern Turkey.[1]

Description

The shell is oval and elongated. The height of the shell is from 23.9 mm to 28.7 mm.

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References
  1. Hausdorf H. (1999) "A new genus of the Buliminidae from Turkey (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Journal of Natural History 33: 149-154. PDF Archived 2006-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
  2. (in German) Retowski O. (1887) "Am Strande der Krim gefundene angeschwemmte Binnenconchylien". Malakozoologische Blatter, Neue Folge, 9: 22-42.
  3. (in German) Forcart L. (1961) "Systematisches Verzeichnis der von Herrn Klaus-Jürgen Gotting 1960 in der Türkei gesammelten Mollusken und Neubeschreibung einer Paramastus-Art". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 90: 175-180.
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