Achatinella abbreviata
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| Achatinella abbreviata | |
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| A live Achatinella abbreviata in 2008 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Achatinellidae |
| Genus: | Achatinella |
| Subgenus: | Bulimella |
| Species: | †A. abbreviata |
| Binomial name | |
| †Achatinella abbreviata Reeve, 1850 | |
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| Location of Oʻahu | |
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Achatinella abbreviata, an Oʻahu tree snail, is an extinct species of colorful tropical tree-living air-breathing land snail, an arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the genus Achatinella.
The dextral shell is ovate and somewhat ventricose with convex whorls margined round the upper shell. The shell has six whorls. The spire is rather short and obtuse at the apex. The columella is callous and twisted. Olive-yellow, with a black-brown line at the sutures; the lower part of the last whorl is very dark green and the apex is black.[4]
The height of the shell is 19.0 mm. The width of the shell is 10.0 mm.[4]
