Anguispira alternata
| Anguispira alternata | |
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| Engravinging of a shell of Anguispira alternata from W. G. Binney, 1878.[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Discidae |
| Genus: | Anguispira |
| Species: | A. alternata |
| Binomial name | |
| Anguispira alternata (Say, 1816) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pyramidula alternata | |
Anguispira alternata, common name the flamed disc or flamed tigersnail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Discidae, the disk snails.
Apical view of the shell of Anguispira alternata
Umbilical view of the shell of Anguispira alternata
Parasites
Parasites of Anguispira alternata include:
References
- ↑ Binney, William G. 1878. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 25.
- ↑ Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment. "Brainworm". accessed 14 December 2010.
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