Adelopoma occidentale is a species of land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae. [1]

Adelopoma occidentale
Shell of Adelopoma occidentale (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Adelopoma
Species:
A. occidentale
Binomial name
Adelopoma occidentale
(Godwin-Austen, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Diplommatina huttoni occidentalis Godwin-Austen, 1886 superseded combination
  • Diplomatina occidentalis Godwin-Austen, 1886 (original combination)
  • Palaina (Cylindropalaina) occidentalis (Godwin-Austen, 1886) superseded combination
  • Palaina occidentalis Godwin-Austen, 1886 superseded combination

Description

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(Original description) The sinistral shell is elongately turreted and scarcely sinuate. Its sculpture has a somewhat distant well marked costulation The colour is white. The spire is rather attenuate and had a blunt apex. The suture is deep. The shell contains six whorls with tumid sides. The body whorl is small, the penultimate whorl much the broadest, those above becoming gradually swollen to the apex. The aperture is small, subvertical and round. The peristome is continuous, closely double. The columellar margin is weak, no tooth, the twist on columella seen within the aperture. [2]

Distribution

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This species is found in Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.

References

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  • Robinson, D. G., Fields, A. & Zimmerman, F. J. (2004). The terrestrial malacofauna of Trinidad and Tobago. Interim report. 1-21.
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