Alcadia pellucida

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

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Alcadia pellucida
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Alcadia
Species:
A. pellucida
Binomial name
Alcadia pellucida
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)
Synonyms[1]

Helicina pellucida G. B. Sowerby II, 1842 ·

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Description

(Original description in Latin) The shell is similar to Helicina zephyrina Duclos, 1833, but with the columella nearly straight and somewhat angular.

A more transparent shell than Helicina zephyrina, with the columella nearly straight, and joining the outer lip at an angle. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in French Guiana.[1]

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