Sagda alligans
Sagda alligans | |
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Illustration of adult and juvenile shells of Sagda alligans | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Sagdidae |
Genus: | Sagda |
Species: | S. alligans |
Binomial name | |
Sagda alligans (Reeve, 1851) |
Sagda alligans is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sagdidae.
Shell description
[edit]The shell is imperforate, globosely conoidal, white, under a brownish-yellow epidermis. The incremental striae are regular, stronger on the spire than on the body whorl. The number of whorls is 8. The shell has a narrow, aperture with a deep-seated strong basal lamella.[1]
The adult shell diameter is 15–20 mm.
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in Jamaica.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Tryon G. W. 1887 Manual of conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. page 6.