Ventridens acerra
| Ventridens acerra | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Gastrodontidae |
| Genus: | Ventridens |
| Species: | V. acerra |
| Binomial name | |
| Ventridens acerra (Lewis, 1870) | |
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Ventridens acerra, commonly known as the glossy dome,[3] is a species of small land snail in the family Gastrodontidae.[2]
Distribution
Ventridens acerra is found in Alabama, the southwest of Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia.[1]
Habitat
It is found in hardwood forests on hillsides under leaf litter, under 1200 m in elevation.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 NatureServe. "Ventridens acerra". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
- 1 2 Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Ventridens acerra (J. Lewis, 1871)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
- ↑ "Mollusks : Carnegie Museum of Natural History". www.carnegiemnh.org.
- Lewis, J. (1871). Notes on the land shells of east Tennessee. American Journal of Conchology, 6(3): 188-191, plate 12.
- InvertEBase. (2018). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase (InvertEBase.org) project