Anguispira alternata
Anguispira alternata | |
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Engravinging of a shell of Anguispira alternata from W. G. Binney, 1878.[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
Family: | Discidae |
Genus: | Anguispira |
Species: | A. alternata |
Binomial name | |
Anguispira alternata (Say, 1816) | |
Synonyms | |
Pyramidula alternata |
Anguispira alternata, common name the flamed disc or flamed tigersnail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Discidae, the disk snails.
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Apical view of the shell of Anguispira alternata
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Umbilical view of the shell of Anguispira alternata
Parasites
Parasites of Anguispira alternata include:
References
- ↑ Binney, William G. 1878. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 25.
- ↑ Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment. "Brainworm". accessed 14 December 2010.
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