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Species of gastropod

Alcadia alta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Alcadia
Species: A. alta
Binomial name
Alcadia alta
(G. B. Sowerby II, 1866)
Synonyms

Helicina alta G. B. Sowerby II, 1866 (basionym)

Alcadia alta is a species of an operculate land snail, terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae.

Description

(Original description) This species is small and pellucidid.

The height of the shell attains 5.3 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs on Puerto Rico.

References

  1. ^ Alcadia alta (G. B. Sowerby II, 1866). 25 July 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. Sowerby, G.B. II (1866). Second monograph of the genus Helicina, including the genera Trochatella, Lucidella, Helicina, Schiascheila [sic!] and Alcadia, of authors. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells (3 ed.). London: privately published. pp. 277–302. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  3. WMSDB: Alcadia alta
  • Eichhorst, T.E. (2016). Neritidae of the world. Volume two. Harxheim: Conchbooks. pp. 695–1366.
  • van der Schalie, H. (1948). The land and fresh-water mollusks of Puerto Rico (70 ed.). Ann Arbor: Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Miscellaneous Publications. pp. 1–134.

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