Alopia canescens

Alopia canescens is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae.

• Alopia canescens ambigua <small>M. Kimakowicz, 1883</small>
• Alopia canescens caesarea <small>(M. Kimakowicz, 1894)</small>
• Alopia canescens canescens <small>(Charpentier, 1852)</small>
• Alopia canescens costata <small>(E. A. Bielz, 1859)</small>
• Alopia canescens haueri <small>(E. A. Bielz, 1859)</small>
• Alopia canescens nefaria <small>(M. Kimakowicz, 1894)</small>
• Alopia canescens striicollis <small>H. Nordsieck, 2024</small>

Description

The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 14 mm, its diameter is 4 mm.

(Original description in Latin) It differs from Alopia livida straminicollis <small>(Charpentier, 1852)</small>, to which it is very similar in appearance, by having a more constricted, somewhat turreted-fusiform shell, entirely smooth and frosted. It lacks palatal folds.

Distribution

This species occurs in Romania.

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