| Elasmias wakefieldiae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Achatinelloidea |
| Family: | Achatinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Tornatellininae |
| Tribe: | Elasmiatini |
| Genus: | Elasmias |
| Species: | E. wakefieldiae |
| Binomial name | |
| Elasmias wakefieldiae (Cox, 1868) | |
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Elasmias wakefieldiae, also known as Wakefield's miniature treesnail, is a species of tree snail that is endemic to Australia.
Description
The globose, ovately conical shell of adult snails is 2.4–2.6 mm in height, with a diameter of 2–2.1 mm, with weakly impressed sutures and rounded whorls with fine spiral grooves. It is transparent white with the apical whorls appearing golden-brown in the living animal. The umbilicus is imperforate. The aperture is subovate. The animal is transparent and colourless.
Habitat
The snail occurs in south-eastern Queensland and New South Wales, as well as on Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. It lives in trees and in leaf litter.
References
- ^ Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Elasmias wakefieldiae | |
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