Alopia glauca
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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|status=LC
|status_system=IUCN3.1
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| image = Alopia glauca (Bielz, 1853) (4227640625).jpg
| image_caption = Shell of Alopia glauca
| taxon = Alopia glauca
| authority = (E. A. Bielz, 1853)
| synonyms=
- Alopia (Kimakowiczia) glauca (E. A. Bielz, 1853) alternative representation
- Balea glauca E. A. Bielz, 1853 (original combination)
- Clausilia (Alopia) glauca (E. A. Bielz, 1853) superseded combination
- Clausilia (Alopia) glauca var. costata M. Kimakowicz, 1883 junior subjective synonym
- Clausilia latens L. Pfeiffer, 1853 (junior synonym)
|range_map= Alopia-glauca-map-eur-nm-moll.jpg
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Alopia glauca is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae.{{WRMS species|1049758|Alopia glauca (E. A. Bielz, 1853)|3 September 2024}}
Description
The length of the shell varies between 11 mm and 18 mm, its diameter between 3.6 mm and 4.7 mm.
(original description in German)
Animal: the upper surface is black-gray, densely covered with elongated granules that converge into five longitudinal lines along the neck; the sole is blue-gray.
Shell: The shell is sinistral and show a wide umbilical slit. It is spindle-shaped and slightly swollen, featuring raised, irregular ribs that evolve into densely spaced, regular longitudinal striae. The surface is matte-glossy, violet in color, with a reddish apex, and when fresh, covered with a bluish bloom. The shell has 10 to 10.5 convex whorls, marked by a deep suture. The suture line and the densely wrinkled, prominently swollen neck are white. The aperture is pear-shaped. The lip is continuous, slightly detached, strongly reflexed, and lipped, with the lip being brownish-white and the palate yellow-brown. The lamellae are short and receding. {{cite journal |last1=Pfeiffer |first1=L. |title=Diagnosen neuer Heliceen. |journal=Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie |date=1853 |volume=10 |issue=4 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16300951 |access-date=3 September 2024}} {{source-attribution}}
Distribution
This species occurs in Romania.
References
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- {{cite book |last1=Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. |title=Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017 |date=2017}}
External links
- {{cite journal |last1=Bielz |first1=E.A. |title=Beitrag zur Kenntnis der siebenbürgischen Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken. |journal=Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt |date=1853 |volume=4 |issue=9 |page=120 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11526015}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Kimakowicz |first1=M. von |title=Beitrag zur Mollusken-Fauna Siebenbürgens |journal=Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften |date=1883 |volume=33 |page=54 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34049888}}
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