Auriculastra radiolata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.
Description
The length of the shell attains 11.5 mm, its diameter 5.5 mm.
(Description as Auricula durbanica in Latin) The shell is oblong, smooth, and slightly glossy, and it is pale olive in color, with the apex decollated. It probably has five whorls, which are irregularly impressed at the sutures; they are smooth or only faintly marked with indistinct longitudinal striations, and the body whorl is broad.
The aperture is narrowly oblong. The peristome is thin and simple. The columella is scarcely glossy, whitish in color, and bears two oblique folds.
Distribution
This species occurs in brackish waters on Zanzibar.
References
- Connolly, M. (1939). A monographic survey of South African non-marine Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum. 33: 1âÂÂ660.
- Herbert, D. & Kilburn, D. (2004). Field guide to the land snails and slugs of eastern South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Natal Museum. [v] + 336 pp.
- Bacci, G. (1951). Elementi per una malacofauna dell'Abissinia e della Somalia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, 65: 1âÂÂ145. Genova.
- Breure, A.S.H., Audibert, C. & Ablett, J.D. (2018). Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809âÂÂ1892) and his contributions to malacology. Leiden: Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging. 544 pp.
- Griffiths, O.L. & Florens, V.F.B. (2006). A field guide to the non-marine molluscs of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion) and the northern dependencies of Mauritius. Bioculture Press: Mauritius. Pp. iâÂÂxv, 1âÂÂ185, pls 1-32.
- Appleton, C.C. (1996). Freshwater molluscs of southern Africa. University of Natal Press: Pietermaritzburg. Pp. 1âÂÂ64.
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