Sagda alligans
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| Sagda alligans | |
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| Illustration of adult and juvenile shells of Sagda alligans | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | S. alligans
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| Binomial name | |
| Sagda alligans (Reeve, 1851)
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Sagda alligans is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sagdidae.
Shell description
The shell is imperforate, globosely conoidal, white, under a brownish-yellow epidermis. The incremental striae are regular, stronger on the spire than on the body whorl. The number of whorls is 8. The shell has a narrow, aperture with a deep-seated strong basal lamella.[1]
The adult shell diameter is 15–20 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in Jamaica.[1]
References
- ^ a b Tryon G. W. 1887 Manual of conchology; structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. page 6.
External links
- http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Sagda+alligans&guide=Molluscs
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081020150243/http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data43/r004262.htmlError: "Q7399090" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.