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Alcadia bahamensis

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Alcadia bahamensis
Shell of Alcadia bahamensis (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Alcadia
Species:
A. bahamensis
Binomial name
Alcadia bahamensis
(L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
Synonyms[1]
  • Helicina (Schasicheila) bahamensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
  • Schasicheila bahamensis L. Pfeiffer, 1862

Alcadia bahamensis is a species of an operculate land snail, terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae.[1]

Description

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The shell is 3.5 mm (0.14 in) high, its greatest diameter 6.5 mm (0.26 in).

The shell is depressed, somewhat thin, and finely striated with small wrinkles. It is reddish under a deciduous epidermis, arranged in rows of bristles. The spire is hardly elevated and has a minute apex. The suture is impressed, and there are 4.5 somewhat flattened whorls. The body whorl is slightly depressed and has a thin callus in the middle underneath. The columella is simple and receding, ending in a small tooth at the base. The aperture is nearly diagonal and somewhat semicircular. The peristome is simple and straight, with the right margin incised at the top, then angularly produced, and the basal margin sinuate near the tooth of the columella. The operculum is typical.[2]

Distribution

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This species occurs on the Bahamas.

References

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  1. ^ a b Alcadia bahamensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1862). 27 July 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ Pfeiffer, L. (1862). "Beschreibung neuer Landschnecken". Malakozoologische Blätter. 9 (4): 151–156. Retrieved 27 July 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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