Anguispira 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
Umbilical view of the shell
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| Engravinging of a shell of Anguispira alternata from W. G. Binney, 1878.[1] | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Species: | A. alternata |
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| Anguispira alternata (Say, 1816) | |
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Pyramidula alternata | |
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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