Leptopoma nitidum

Leptopoma nitidum
Shell of Leptopoma nitidum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Cyclophoridae
Genus: Leptopoma
Species: L. nitidum
Binomial name
Leptopoma nitidum
(Sowerby, 1843)

Leptopoma nitidum is a species of land snail with a gill and an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Cyclophoridae.

Apertural view of the shell of Leptopoma nitidum.

Distribution

This species occurs in Indonesia.[1] The color of the shell is actually translucently milky-white, and the green color is from the mantle.

References

  1. Leptopoma nitidum. BISHOGAI Data Base, accessed 2 April 2009.


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