Norelona pyrenaica
Species of gastropod
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Norelona pyrenaica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Elonidae.
| Norelona pyrenaica | |
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| Three views of the shell of Norelona pyrenaica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Elonidae |
| Genus: | Norelona H. Nordsiek, 1986 |
| Species: | N. pyrenaica |
| Binomial name | |
| Norelona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Helix pyrenaica Draparnaud, 1805 | |
Norelona pyrenaica is the type species of the genus Norelona.
Shell description
The shell is narrowly umbilicated, flattened above, thin, pellucid, olivaceous corneous. The shell has 4½[2] whorls, that are rather flattened. The last whorl is not descending. The peristome is acute, reflected, white-lipped.[3]
The width of the shell is 17–21 mm. The height of the shell is 9–11 mm.[2]
Anatomy
This species of snail makes and uses love darts.[4] (Image of reproductive system.)
Distribution
This species is endemic to the eastern Pyrenees, France.[5] (map of distribution, map 2)