Alopia canescens
Species of gastropod
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Alopia canescens is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae.[1]
- Subspecies
- Alopia canescens ambigua M. Kimakowicz, 1883
- Alopia canescens caesarea (M. Kimakowicz, 1894)
- Alopia canescens canescens (Charpentier, 1852)
- Alopia canescens costata (E. A. Bielz, 1859)
- Alopia canescens haueri (E. A. Bielz, 1859)
- Alopia canescens nefaria (M. Kimakowicz, 1894)
- Alopia canescens striicollis H. Nordsieck, 2024
| Alopia canescens | |
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| Shell of Alopia canescens | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Genus: | Alopia |
| Species: | A. canescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Alopia canescens (Charpentier, 1852) | |
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 14 mm, its diameter is 4 mm.
(Original description in Latin) It differs from Alopia livida straminicollis (Charpentier, 1852), to which it is very similar in appearance, by having a more constricted, somewhat turreted-fusiform shell, entirely smooth and frosted. It lacks palatal folds.[2]
