| Lozekia transsilvanica | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Hygromiidae |
| Subfamily: | Hygromiinae |
| Genus: | Lozekia |
| Species: | L. transsilvanica |
| Binomial name | |
| Lozekia transsilvanica (Westerlund, 1876) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lozekia transsilvanica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies. This species is also known as Hygromia transsylvanica.
Distribution
This species occurs in:
Description
The shell of Lozekia transsilvanica is horny grey, greenish or yellowish brown in color, and is extremely finely striated. The surface has fine and short (0.08-0.25 mm) riblets (120-160/mm). The shell has 5 weakly convex whorls, which rapidly increase in size. The last whorl is inflated and has a weak edge at the periphery, which is slowly and straightly descending near the aperture. The margin is straight and thin. The umbilicus is very narrow and is almost covered by the reflected columellar margin.
The width of the shell is 5.5-6.5 mm. The height of the shell is 4.5–6 mm.
Lozekia transsilvanica differs from Lozekia kovacsi in its larger (120-160 per square mm in Lozekia transsilvanica, 180-500 in Lozekia kovacsi) and longer riblets (Lozekia transsilvanica 0.08-0.25 mm, Lozekia kovacsi 0.055-0.09 mm).
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.
- Westerlund C. A. (1876-1878). Fauna Europæa molluscorum extramarinorum. Prodromus. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium generum et specierum horum animalium in Europa viventium et hodie cognitarum. pp. 1-320. Lundae. (Berlingia)
- Fehér Z., Szabó K., Bozsó M. & Pénzes Z. (2009). "Phylogeny and phylogeography of the Lozekia–Kovacsia species group (Gastropoda: Hygromiidae)". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 47(4): 306-314. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00534.x
- ^ "Species summary for Lozekia transsilvanica". AnimalBase, last modified 2 January 2010, accessed 13 September 2010.
- ^ Čejka T., Dvořák L., Horsák M. & Šteffek J. (2007). "Checklist of molluscs (Mollusca) in the Slovak Republic". Folia Malacologica 15(2): 49-58.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Lozekia transsilvanica | |