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Cellar Snail
Oxychilus cellarius
Oxychilus cellarius, common name Cellar Glass-snail, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.
From the article Oxychilus cellarius on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The shell has 5.5-6 regularly increasing whorls. The last whorl is not inflated and narrower than in Oxychilus draparnaudi. The shell is nearly smooth and shiny and only very faintly striated. The umbilicus is moderately deep and open. The width of the shell is 7–11 mm, 0.28–0.43 in (14 mm, 0.55 in maximum). The height of the shell is 4.5–6 mm, 0.18–0.24 in. The animal is usually pale bluish grey. Genitalia: Penis cylindrical without constrictions (in contrast to Oxychilus draparnaudi), rows of papillae of penis continuous without interruption (interrupted at the constriction in Oxychilus draparnaudi).
Range & habitat
This species occurs in countries and islands including:
Czech Republic Poland Slovakia Great Britain Ireland New Zealand (e.g. Dunedin).
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 203787.