Cerion uva

Cerionuva
Shells of Cerion uva
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Urocoptoidea
Family: Cerionidae
Genus: Cerion
Species: C. uva
Binomial name
Cerion uva
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Turbo uva Linnaeus, 1758
  • Pupa uva Pfeiffer, 1848
  • Strophia (Pupa) uva Bland, 1868
  • Cerion uva uva H. B. Baker, 1924

Cerion uva is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cerionidae, the peanut snails. [1]

Description

Shells of Cerion uva can reach a length of 24 mm. [2] This species shows extensive and geographically variations in whorl size. [3] Moreover the shape of these shells change very much as well they grows. In the adults the shells are beehive-shaped and have an expanded outer lip. [2][4][5]

Distribution

This species is present in Curacao, in the Dutch West Indies. [6]

References

  1. ↑ WoRMS
  2. 1 2 Geerat J. Vermeij A Natural History of Shells
  3. ↑ Stephen Jay Gould The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
  4. ↑ Henry A. Pilsbry and E. G. Vanatta Catalogue of the Species of Cerion, with Descriptions of New Forms Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 48
  5. ↑ P.Wagenaar Hummelinck About the malacological subdivision of Curaçao; a review
  6. ↑ Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History


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