Kissing island snail

Kissing island snail
	Kissing island snail ( Lindholmiola lens )
Systematics
Subordination :	Land snails (Stylommatophora)
Superfamily :	Helicoidea
Family :	Helicodontidae
Subfamily :	Lindholmiolinae
Genre :	Lindholmiola
Type :	Kissing island snail
Scientific name
	Lindholmiola lens
	( Férussac , 1832)

The kissing island snail ( Lindholmiola lens ) is a type of snail from the family of the belt snail (Helicodontidae), which belongs to the suborder of the land snail (Stylommatophora).

features

The shell of the kissing island snail is lens-shaped (Latin species name lens = lens) with a strongly curved underside and a flatter, only slightly raised top. It reaches a diameter of 10 to 13 mm. The 6.5 whorls increase evenly and are canted or keeled above the middle. In the juvenile stage, the underside has numerous, short hairs that largely disappear with age. The navel is cylindrical and the edge of the mouth is slightly turned over. The outside shows a fine streaked growth that can sometimes be stronger and can then also be described as finely ribbed.

Occurrence, distribution and way of life

The kissing island snail is common in eastern Albania and almost all of Greece (including most of the Aegean islands, but not on Crete) and the southwest coast of Asia Minor. It lives under stones and litter.

Mating takes place in autumn. The foreplay consists of hours of rocking movements; the feelers are moved vigorously and the mouth parts touch like a kiss (German name of the animal!). After copulation, 10 to 15 eggs with a diameter of 2 mm are laid in moist soil. The young hatch after about 2 weeks.

Systematics

The species was first described in 1832 by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac under the name Helix (Helicigona) lens . It is the type species of the genus Lindholmiola Hesse, 1931. The belt snails are still treated by some authors as a subfamily (Helicodontinae) of the leaf snails (Hygromiidae). In more recent works, however, it is viewed as an independent family within the Helicoidea . The fauna Europaea and Bouchet and Rocroi even subdivide the family of belt snails into two subfamilies Helicodontinae and Lindholmiolinae Schileyko, 1978.

Individual evidence

↑ André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac and Gérard Paul Deshayes: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles . Tome 1: 8 + 184 pp .; Tome 2 (1): 402 pp .; 2 (2): 260 + 22 + 16 pp .; Atlas 1: 70 pl .; Atlas 2: 166 + 5 pl., Paris, J.-B. Baillière 1819-1851.

literature

Rosina Fechter and Gerhard Falkner: molluscs. (Steinbach's Nature Guide 10), Mosaik-Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-570-03414-3 , p. 287.

Web links

Fauna Europaea

AnimalBase

Lindholmiola lens inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Vardinoyannis, K. & Triantis, K., 2010. Retrieved February 15, 2014.

Source:

[1] André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac and Gérard Paul Deshayes: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles . Tome 1: 8 + 184 pp .; Tome 2 (1): 402 pp .; 2 (2): 260 + 22 + 16 pp .; Atlas 1: 70 pl .; Atlas 2: 166 + 5 pl., Paris, J.-B. Baillière 1819-1851.