Parmacella olivieri
Parmacella olivieri is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Parmacellidae.
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| Drawing of dorsal view and right lateral view of Parmacella olivieri from its type description by Georges Cuvier. | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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| Species: | P. olivieri |
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Parmacella olivieri is the type species of the genus Parmacella.[2]
Description
The shell is very narrow, thick-walled.[2] The apex is smooth and glossy amber golden.[2] There are several tubercles and wrinkles in the aperture.[2]
The animal is brown with chocolate brown bands on the mantle.[2] The mantle is up to 20 mm long.[2] The whole animal up to 32 mm long.[2]
 Drawing of anatomy of Parmacella olivieri from its type description. |
 Drawing of anatomy of Parmacella olivieri from its type description. |
gollark: It's quite bad for your health.
gollark: *receives fatal radiation poisoning from gamma rays*
gollark: True enough, I guess! You could probably just edit your mind if it was a problem, if you had the technology to upload it into plasma.
gollark: "Flesh" is the biological carbon-y meat humans/animals/etc are currently made of. The particles or whatever would be your *body*, but not "flesh".
gollark: Hmm, that *would* be better actually.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[2]
- (in French) Cuvier G. (1804). "Mémoire sur la dolabelle, sur la testacelle et sur un nouveau genre de mollusques à coquille cachée, nommée parmacelle". Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 5(30): 435-444, Plate 29. Paris.
- "Species summary for Parmacella olivieri". AnimalBase, last modified 7 June 2008, accessed 1 September 2010.
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