Allopeas acmella
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| Allopeas acmella | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Allopeas acmella (holotype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Genus: | Allopeas |
| Species: | A. acmella |
| Binomial name | |
| Allopeas acmella (Morelet, 1885) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Stenogyra acmella Morelet, 1885 (original combination) | |
Allopeas acmella is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 4 ¼ mm.
(Original description in Latin) The crystalline and smooth shell is small, turreted and needle-shaped, with a slightly blunt apex. It has 7 barely convex whorls, bordered by a finely toothed suture, with the body whorl making up about one-fourth of the shell's length. The aperture is ovate-lunate, with simple, curved margins, and the columellar margin slightly expanded and reflected at the top. [2]
