Melloconcha flavescens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Euconulidae
Subfamily: Microcystinae
Tribe: Liardetiini
Genus: Melloconcha
Species:
M. flavescens
Binomial name
Melloconcha flavescens
(Iredale, 1944)[1]
Location of Lord Howe Island
Synonyms
  • Tribocystis flavescens Iredale, 1944

Melloconcha flavescens, also known as the tiny yellow glass-snail, is a species of land snail that is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.[2]

Description

The discoidal shell of the mature snail is 2.7–3.6 mm in height, with a diameter of 5–6.5 mm, and a low spire. It is smooth, glossy and golden-brown in colour The whorls are flattened above and rounded below, with a slightly angulate periphery and finely incised spiral grooves. It has an ovately lunate aperture and closed umbilicus. The animal is cream, with dark grey neck, head and eyestalks, often with red, orange or yellow colouration at the end of the tail.[2]

Distribution and habitat

The snail is widespread across the island in rainforest and moist woodland, in litter and in the axils between the stems and trunks of palms.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Iredale, Tom (1944). "The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island". Australian Zoologist. 10 (3): 299–334.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
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