''Meridolum middenense'' is a species of 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 ...

, a 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 ...

mollusk in the family Camaenidae. This species is endemic to

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Ecology

This species lives in open forests in the leaf litter."Species ''Meridolum middenense'' McLauchlan, 1954"
. ''Australian Faunal Directory'', accessed 24 March 2011.

References

External links

* http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e5286581-adaa-456f-84ce-779f61242f48;jsessionid=5429EB264524B922B109437F4D0B750C middenense Gastropods described in 1954 {{Camaenidae-stub