Brachypodella caymanensis

Brachypodella caymanensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Urocoptidae
Genus: Brachypodella
Species:
B. caymanensis
Binomial name
Brachypodella caymanensis
Pilsbry, 1930
Synonyms
  • Brachypodella (Cyclauchen) caymanensis Pilsbry, 1930 (unaccepted combination)
  • Brachypodella erratica Pilsbry, 1930 (junior synonym)

Brachypodella caymanensis is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Brachypodellinae of the family Urocoptidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 7.3 mm, its diameter 1.8 mm.

(Original description) The slender, fusiform shell is pale brown, narrowly truncate, leaving 10.5 strongly convex whorls. The last half of the body whorl descends more rapidly, is free, rounded and without angulation. The first half whorl is prominent, smooth, the next two embryonic whorls are very finely and regularly striate axially. Postembryonic whorls are more convex. Their sculpture consists of somewhat retractive ribs narrower than their intervals; on the penultimate whorl about 30 ribs, the intervals twice the width of the ribs. The aperture is subcircular, somewhat oblique; the peristome is reflected, narrower in the outer margin, giving the opening a shortly ovate shape. The internal axis is slender, straight and smooth.[2]

Distribution

This snail occurs in the Cayman Islands.

References

  • Pilsbry, H.A. (1942). "Land Mollusca of the Cayman Islands collected by the Oxford University Biological Expedition, 1938". The Nautilus. 56 (1): 5.
  • Pilsbry, H.A. (1949). "Land mollusks of Cayman Brac". The Nautilus. 63 (2): 44.
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