Cochlodina orthostoma is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.
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| Cochlodina orthostoma | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Genus: | Cochlodina |
| Species: | C. orthostoma
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| Binomial name | |
| Cochlodina orthostoma (Menke, 1828)
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Distribution
editIts native distribution is Central European and Eastern European. It occurs in:
- Czech Republic
- Slovakia
- Ukraine[1]
- and others
Description
editThe weight of the adult live snail is about 74.7±5.3 mg.[2]
Ecology
editThe habitat of this species is woodland.
References
edit- ^ Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.
- ^ Boch S., Prati D., Werth S., Rüetschi J. & Fischer M. (2011). "Lichen Endozoochory by Snails". PLoS ONE 6(4): e18770. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018770.
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