Auriculastra saccata
| Auriculastra saccata | |
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| Shell of Auriculastra saccata (specimen in the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Ellobiida |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Genus: | Auriculastra |
| Species: | A. saccata |
| Binomial name | |
| Auriculastra saccata (Pfeiffer, 1855) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Auricula saccata L. Pfeiffer, 1855 superseded combination | |
Auriculastra saccata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.[1]
Description
The length of the shell attains 14 mm, its diameter 6 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is shortly and deeply rimate (having a narrow slit-like opening). It is club-shaped and solid. It is finely striated, somewhat glossy, and displays a brownish-yellow hue, though the surface is irregularly eroded. The spire is elongated-conic with a sharp apex. The suture is flat and appears "torn" or jagged.
There are 8 to 9 flat whorls; the body whorl is nearly equal to the spire in length, widening toward the bottom and becoming sac-like at the base. The aperture is vertical and narrowly oval. Inside, there is a single, very small parietal fold located in the middle and set slightly crosswise. The columellar fold is faintly "double-toothed" or bidenticulate, though this feature is nearly obsolete. The peristome (the rim of the mouth) is blunt; its right margin is curved or sinuated at the top and thickened in the middle, while the columellar margin is dilated, callous, and spreading outward. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan.
References
- ↑ Auriculastra saccata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855). 28 February 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ↑ Pfeiffer, L. (1855). Descriptions of six new species of Auriculacea. from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 22 p. 121
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Groh K. (2010). [in G. Poppe, ed.] Philippine marine mollusks, vol. 3: 446-457. Hackenheim: Conchbooks.
External links
- Möllendorff, O.F. von (1898). "Verzeichnis der auf den Philippinen lebenden Landmollusken". Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Görlitz. 22: 160. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
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