Ogasawarana ogasawarana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Helicinidae
Genus: Ogasawarana
Species:
O. ogasawarana
Binomial name
Ogasawarana ogasawarana
(Pilsbry, 1902)[2]
Synonyms

Kaliella ogasawarana Pilsbry, 1902[2]

Ogasawarana ogasawarana is a species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae, the helicinids.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Japan.

Description

Ogasawarana ogasawarana was originally described under the name Kaliella ogasawarana by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1902.[2]

Pilsbry's original text (the type description) appeared in the key and it reads as follows:

Shell large for the genus, subperforate, conic, pale yellowish-corneous, subtransparent, glossy, smooth except for slight growth-lines. Spire almost straightly conic, the apex obtuse. Whorls 7½, somewhat convex, the last strongly angular at the periphery, moderately convex below. Aperture slightly curved, in crescent form, truncate at the ends; lip thin and acute, the columella concave, with narrowly reflexed margin. Alt. 5, diam. 5 mm. Hahajima, Ogasawara (Y. Hirase, No. 846).

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[2]

  1. ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Ogasawarana ogasawarana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T15176A4499155. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T15176A4499155.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Pilsbry H. A. (1902). "New land Mollusca from Japan and the Bonin Islands". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 54: 25-32.

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