Orthalicus undatus

Orthalicus undatus
Orthalicus undatus
Black-and-white photo of the apertural view of the shell of Orthalicus undatus jamaicensis from Jamaica. Scale bar is 1 cm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Orthalicidae
Subfamily: Orthalicinae
Genus: Orthalicus
Species: O. undatus
Binomial name
Orthalicus undatus

Orthalicus undatus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.

Subspecies

  • Orthalicus undatus jamaicensis (Pilsbry, 1899) - synonym: Orthalicus jamaicensis. This is the only species of the genus Orthalicus, that lives in Jamaica.[1]

References

  1. ^ Gary Rosenberg, Igor V. Muratov 2006. Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2006 155 (1), 117-161, doi:10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1