Elasmias wakefieldiae, also known as Wakefield's miniature treesnail, is a species of tree snail that is endemic to Australia.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Species: | E. wakefieldiae
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| Elasmias wakefieldiae (Cox, 1868)
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Description
editThe globose, ovately conical shell of adult snails is 2.4–2.6 mm in height, with a diameter of 2–2.1 mm, with weakly impressed sutures and rounded whorls with fine spiral grooves. It is transparent white with the apical whorls appearing golden-brown in the living animal. The umbilicus is imperforate. The aperture is subovate. The animal is transparent and colourless.[1]
Habitat
editThe snail occurs in south-eastern Queensland and New South Wales, as well as on Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. It lives in trees and in leaf litter.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Hyman, Isabel; Köhler, Frank (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Sydney: Australian Museum. ISBN 978-0-9750476-8-2.