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Cochlicopa lubrica (O. F. Müller 1774)

Cochlicopa lubrica

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Cochlicopa lubrica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlicopidae.[3]

Description

The 5–7.5 x 2.4–2.9 mm shell has 4–5 moderately convex whorls. The aperture inside is slightly thickened. There are no apertural teeth and there is no umbilicus. Shell colour is horny yellowish to reddish brown. The animal is greyish or blackish, with dark tentacles .

This species can be hard to differentiate from the similar species Cochlicopa lubricella.

Taxonomy

Cochlicopa repentina Hudec, 1960 has been evaluated as a form of Cochlicopa lubrica in 1994.[4]

Shell of Cochlicopa lubrica

Distribution

This species occurs in countries and islands including:

References

  1. ^ IUCN (2007). 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Downloaded on 19 September 2008.
  2. ^ "Cochlicopa lubrica (O.F. Muller 1774)". Fauna Europaea, accessed 10 September 2010.
  3. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cochlicopa lubrica (O. F. Müller, 1774). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=819984 on 2020-08-25
  4. ^ Armbruster G. & Schlegel M. (1994). "The land-snail species of Cochlicopa (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Cochlicopidae): presentation of taxon-specific allozyme patterns, and evidence for a high level of self-fertilization". J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Research 32: 282–296.
  5. ^ Jadwiga Anna Barga. "WYNIKI WSTĘPNYCH BADAŃ DO MONITORINGU MALAKOFAUNY ZLEWNI „POŻARY" W KAMPINOSKIM PARKU NARODOWYM" (PDF). Kampinoski-pn.gov.pl. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  6. ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91–109.
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Cochlicopa lubrica: Brief Summary

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Cochlicopa lubrica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlicopidae.

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