Cerion uva
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| Shells of Cerion uva | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | C. uva
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| Cerion uva (Linnaeus, 1758)
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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
- ^ WoRMS
- ^ a b Geerat J. Vermeij A Natural History of Shells
- ^ Stephen Jay Gould The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
- ^ 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
- ^ P.Wagenaar Hummelinck About the malacological subdivision of Curaçao; a review
- ^ Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History