| Pleurodonte nigrescens | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Pleurodonte nigrescens. The height of the shell is 11.1 mm. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Pleurodontidae |
| Genus: | Pleurodonte |
| Species: | P. nigrescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleurodonte nigrescens (Wood, 1828) | |
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Pleurodonte nigrescens is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae.
Distribution
The distribution of Pleurodonte nigrescens includes:
Description
Pleurodonte nigrescens differs from all other Dominican Pleurodonte species by the characteristic parietal tooth opposite the basal teeth in the aperture. The shell can be chesnut-brown with fine axial lines or purple-black with a purple aperture.
Ecology
Pleurodonte nigrescens lives in damp leaf litter on the forest floor. This species appears to prefer relatively undisturbed habitats, especially in rain forest at higher altitudes in Dominica.
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference
- ^ Robinson D. G., Hovestadt A., Fields A. & Breure A. S. H. (July 2009). "The land Mollusca of Dominica (Lesser Antilles), with notes on some enigmatic or rare species Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine". Zoologische Mededelingen 83
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Pleurodonte nigrescens | |