Leptopoma perlucidum

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Leptopoma perlucidum is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Cyclophoridae.[1]

Apertural view of the shell of Leptopoma perlucidum
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Subclass:Caenogastropoda
Order:Architaenioglossa
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Leptopoma perlucidum
Shell of Leptopoma perlucidum (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Cyclophoridae
Genus: Leptopoma
Species:
L. perlucidum
Binomial name
Leptopoma perlucidum
(Grateloup, 1840)
Synonyms
25 synonyms
    • Cyclostoma nitidum Sowerby, G.B. II, 1843 (junior synonym)
    • Cyclostoma pellucida Grateloup, 1840 (typographic error on page 454 for "perlucidum"; not an available name)
    • Cyclostoma perlucida Grateloup, 1840 (original combination)
    • Cyclostoma vitreum Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cyclostoma vitreum Draparnaud, 1801; considered as a distinct species in the Solomon Islands by Delsaerdt (2016))
    • Cyclostoma vitreum Lesson, 1831 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cyclostoma vitreum Draparnaud, 1801)
    • Leptopoma (Leptopoma) cinctellum L. Pfeiffer, 1862 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma (Leptopoma) lowi L. Pfeiffer, 1858 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum (Lesson, 1831)· accepted, alternate representation
    • Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum var. lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma (Leptopoma) vitreum var. levis Hidalgo, 1886 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma cinctellum L. Pfeiffer, 1862 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma lowi L. Pfeiffer, 1858 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma nitidum (Sowerby, G.B. II, 1843) (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma nitidum faber Iredale, 1941 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma nitidum sanctum Iredale, 1943 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma nitidum ultra Iredale, 1937 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma nitidum weeksi Bartsch, 1919 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma perlucida (Grateloup, 1840) (incorrect gender of species name)
    • Leptopoma perlucidum levis Hidalgo, 1886 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma perlucidum var. lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (basionym)
    • Leptopoma vitrea (Lesson, 1831) (incorrect gender of species name)
    • Leptopoma vitreum (Lesson, 1831) (invalid: based on a preoccupied original name)
    • Leptopoma vitreum lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (junior synonym)
    • Leptopoma vitreum var. lacteum Kobelt, 1886 (original rank)
    • Leptopoma vitreum var. levis Hidalgo, 1886 (basionym)
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Distribution

This species occurs in Indonesia,[2] Sabah (Malaysia),[3] the Philippines,[1] the Solomon Islands and Australia.[citation needed]

Description

The shell width and height is about 14 mm (0.6 in) in females and 13 mm (0.5 in) in males.[3] The color of the shell is actually translucently milky-white, and the green color is from the mantle.

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