Levantina longinqua
Species of land snail
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Levantina longinqua is a poorly known species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.[1]
| Levantina longinqua | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Genus: | Levantina |
| Species: | L. longinqua |
| Binomial name | |
| Levantina longinqua (Schütt & Subai, 1996) | |
The species is only known from its type series of uncertain provenance.
Description
A large Levantina species (height 19–22 mm, diameter 40–43 mm). Shell flattened and thick-walled. Colour greyish white, the five bands are fuzzy and light brown, interrupted by a white zig-zag radial pattern. Whorls are not keeled in juveniles. Last whorl abruptly descends towards aperture. Aperture a bit expanded compared to the last whorl, with a broad reflected rim. Umbilicus largely covered. Most similar to Levantina cilicica.[1]
Distribution
The distribution is unknown. The species was described based on material allegedly originating from "Hasrat-Sultan" mountains southeast of Samarkand in Uzbekistan[2] However, there is no other record of Levantina that far east and the species was never found again. The material could have actually originated from the Taurus Mountains in Turkey.[3]