Canariella hispidula

Canariella hispidula is a species of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Canariellidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Canariella hispidula
A shell of Canariella hispidula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Canariellidae
Genus:
Canariella
Subgenus:
Canariella
Species:
C. hispidula
Binomial name
Canariella hispidula
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms

synonyms include:[1]

  • C. barbata Férussac & Deshayes, 1832
  • C. beata Wollaston, 1878
  • C. bertheloti Férussac, 1835
  • C. everia Mabille, 1882
  • C. fortunata Shuttleworth, 1852
  • C. lanosa Férussac, 1835
  • C. lens Férussac, 1821
  • Helicodonta salteri Gude, 1911[2]
  • C. subhispidula Mousson, 1872

Canariella hispidula is the type species of the genus Canariella.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Canary Islands, specifically to Tenerife.

Shell description

The shell is moderately umbilicated, conoid, solid, light rufous above, paler below, especially towards the umbilicus. Nepionic whorls are finely granulated, the remainder closely covered with fine curved riblets, and densely infested with granules arranged in quincunx above, but somewhat irregularly below. The spire is pyramidal. Apex is acute. Suture is linear. The shell has five whorls, that are slightly flattened above, convex below, obtusely carinated at the periphery and obtusely angulated round the umbilicus, increasing regularly, the last nearly twice as wide as the penultimate, shortly deflexed in front, and slightly constricted behind the peristome.[2]

The aperture is semi-rotundate, oblique, margins approaching, united by a thin callus on the parietal wall. The peristome is scarcely thickened, reflexed, whitish, upper margin slightly curved, basal rounded, columellar ascending, and slightly dilated. Umbilicus moderately wide and deep, showing a portion of the penultimate whorl.[2]

The width of the shell is 10.5–12 mm. The height of the shell is 6 mm.[2]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[2]

  1. Check-list Pen. Iberica con sinonimie. Natura Mediterraneo. Accessed 30 November 2009
  2. Gude G. P. L. K. (March 1911) "Description of a new species of Helicodonta from Tenerife". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 9: 268.

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