Aegopinella reussi is an extinct species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae, the glass snails.[1]
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| Shell of Aegopinella reussi (holotype) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Gastrodontidae |
| Genus: | Aegopinella |
| Species: | †A. reussi
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| †Aegopinella reussi (M. Hörnes, 1856)
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Description
editThe diameter of the shell attains 8.3 mm, its height 4.2 mm.
(Original description in German) The shell is very flat and conical, with an almost flat apex and a moderately flattened, not very wide and continuously umbilical lower end. It comprises five flatly arched whorls, separated by deep sutures. The body whorl measures approximately three-quarters of the total shell height. The obliquely positioned aperture is broadly moon-shaped and features simple, sharp edges.[2]
Distribution
editFossils of this extinct species were found in late Miocene strata in the Vienna Basin, Austria.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b WoRMS. "Aegopinella reussi (M. Hörnes, 1856)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2024-06-04.
- ^ Schlosser, M. (1907). Die Land- und Süsswassergastropoden vom Eichkogel bei Mödling. Nebst einer Besprechung der Gastropoden ans dem Miocän von Rein in Steiermark. Jahrbuch der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. 57: 753-792
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Hörnes, M. (1851–1856). Die fossilen Mollusken des Tertiär-Beckens von Wien. I. Univalven. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt. 3: 1–736, pls 1-52
- Harzhauser, M., Binder, H. (2004). Synopsis of the Late Miocene mollusc fauna of the classical sections Richardhof and Eichkogel in the Vienna Basin (Austria, Pannonian, MN 9-MN11). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 133 (1–2), 1-57.
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