''Labyrinthus umbrus'' is a
species
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of air-breathing
land snail, a
terrestrial
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pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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in the family
Labyrinthidae
Labyrinthidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Labyrinthidae Borrero, Sei, D. G. Robinson & Rosenberg, 2017. Accessed throug ...
.
This taxon was described as ''Labyrinthus umbrus'' by
Fred Gilbert Thompson
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from Rancho Grande,
Aragua
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in
Venezuela
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in 1957.
Alan Solem
George Alan Solem (21 June 1931 – 26 March 1990),Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (2009). ''2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed.'', February 15, 2009, 830 pp. + 32 pp. nnex of Collations American Malacological Society: http://www.malacologi ...
considered this taxon as a subspecies ''Labyrinthus leucodon umbrus'' in 1966.
Distribution
This species occurs in:
* Venezuela
[ Solem A. (31 May) 1966]
''The Neotropical land snail genera: Labyrinthus and Isomeria (Pulmonata, Camaenidae)''
Fieldiana: Zoology, volume 50
page 58
59.
**
El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda, Venezuela
References
Labyrinthidae
Gastropods described in 1957
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