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Species of gastropod
Calocochlea pulcherrima
Shell of Calocochlea pulcherrima from
Philippines at the
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
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C. pulcherrima
Binomial name
Calocochlea pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841)
Synonyms
Calocochlea luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (junior synonym)
Calocochlea luzonica luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (junior synonym)
Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) chrysacme Quadras & Möllendorff, 1893 (junior synonym)
Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (superseded combination)
Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) luzonica luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (superseded combination)
Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination)
Cochlostyla chrysacme Quadras & Möllendorff, 1893 (junior synonym)
Cochlostyla luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (junior synonym)
Cochlostyla pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination)
Helicostyla (Calocochlea) pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination)
Helicostyla pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination)
Helix (Cochlogena) pulcherrima G. B. Sowerby I, 184 1 (original combination)
Helix luzonica Reeve, 1842 (junior synonym)
Helix luzonica L. Pfeiffer, 1842 (junior synonym)
Helix pulcherrima G. B. Sowerby I, 1841
Calocochlea pulcherrima is a
species of large air-breathing
land snail , a
pulmonate
gastropod
mollusk in the family
Camaenidae .
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This species is very common in the
Philippines . The shell is between 31 and 46 millimeters long with brown spiral bands and a cream-colored background.
References
Pfeiffer, L. (1842). Descriptions of new species of shells belonging to the genera Helix and Bulimus, collected by H. Cuming, Esq, in the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 10 (113): 84–89. London
ABBOTT, R.T. , 1989: Compendium of landshells: a colour guide to more than 2,000 of the World's Terrestrial Shells. American Malacologists Inc., Burlington, USA.
External links
Sowerby, G. B., I. (1841). Descriptions of new species of the family Helicidae, collected by Mr. H. Cuming in the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 8: 87-91, 96-104, 116-118
Reeve L.A. (1841-1842). Conchologia Systematica, or complete system of conchology; in which the Lepades and conchiferous Mollusca are described and classified according to their natural organization and habits. Longman, Brown, Green, & Longman's, London. Vol. 1: 1-195, pls 1-129; Vol. 2: 1-338, pls 130-300
Richardson, L. (1983). Bradybaenidae: Catalog of species. Tryonia. 9: 1-253
Quadras, J. F. & Möllendorf, O. F. von. (1893). Diagnoses specierum novarum ex parte septentrionali insulae Luzon. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 25(11-12): 169 - 184
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