Daedalochila uvulifera

Daedalochila uvulifera


Daedalochila uvulifera
Three views of a shell of Daedalochila uvulifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Daedalochila
Species: D. uvulifera
Binomial name
Daedalochila uvulifera
(Shuttleworth, 1852)

Daedalochila uvulifera, common name the peninsula liptooth, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

Subspecies

  • Daedalochila uvulifera bicornuta
  • Daedalochila uvulifera margueritae
  • Daedalochila uvulifera striata[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Pilsbry, Henry A. (1940). Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Monograph 3, vol. 1(2): 591-607.
  2. ^ Burch, John B. (1962). How to know the Eastern Land Snails. Wm. C. Brown Co.: Dubuque IA, 214 pp.