Lauria cylindracea
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Lauria cylindracea, common name
"the common chrysalis snail", is a species
of air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lauriidae
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Common name
A common name of a taxon or organism is a name in general use within a community; it is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism...
"the common chrysalis snail", is a species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
, a terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lauriidae
Lauriidae
Lauriidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.- Taxonomy :The Lauriidae family is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata .The family Lauriidae has no...
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Distribution
This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands:- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Portugal
- and other areas
External links
- AnimalBaseAnimalBaseAnimalBase is a project brought to life in 2004 and is maintained by the University of Göttingen, Germany. The goal of the AnimalBase project is to digitize early zoological literature, provide copyright-free open access to zoological works, and provide manually verified lists of names of...
information: http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=1210 - Series of good images at: http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?search=Lauria+cylindracea&guide=Molluscs
- More images: http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T12486.HTM