''Charpentieria ornata'' is a
species of small, very elongate, air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the family
Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a
clausilium.
Distribution
The distribution of this species is eastern-
Alpine.
[ Lisický M. J. (1991)]
''Mollusca Slovenska''
he Slovak molluscs
He or HE may refer to:
Language
* He (pronoun), an English pronoun
* He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ
* He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets
* He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in ...
VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied
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, Bratislava, 344 pp.
It occurs in:
*
Czech Republic
References
Charpentieria
Gastropods described in 1836
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