Urticicola umbrosus
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| Urticicola umbrosus | |
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| An apical view of a shell of Urticicola umbrosus | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Hygromiidae |
| Genus: | Urticicola |
| Species: | U. umbrosus |
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| Urticicola umbrosus (C. Pfeiffer, 1828)[2] | |
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Urticicola umbrosus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.[3][4]
The height of the shell varies between 5.5 mm and 7 mm; its width varies between 10 mm and 13 mm.
The thin shell is fragile and translucent. It is turbinately globose, closely wound. The spire has a flat and conical shape. It contains 5½ whorls. The periphery of the last one shows a blunt ridge, that disappears before it reaches the aperture. The aperture is obliquely lunate. The umbilicus is very wide and measures about half the width of the shell.
