Lindholmiola lens

Kissing island snail ( Lindholmiola lens )

The kissing island snail ( Lindholmiola lens ) is a species of snail from the family of belt snails ( Helicodontidae ), which belongs to the suborder of terrestrial snails ( gastropod ).

Features

The case of the kissing island snail is lens-shaped (Latin species name lens = lens ) with a strongly curved bottom and a flatter, only slightly raised top. It reaches a diameter of 10 to 13 mm. The 6.5 whorls to evenly and are above the center edged up keeled. In the juvenile stage, the underside of numerous, short hairs that are largely lost in old age. The navel is cylindrical and the aperture rim is slightly folded. The outside shows a fine Anwachsstreifung that fail also sometimes stronger and can then be referred to as feinrippig.

Occurrence, distribution and life

The kissing island snail is in Eastern Albania and in almost all of Greece (including most Aegean islands, but not in Crete ) and the southwest coast of Asia Minor spread. She lives under stones and leaf litter.

Mating occurs in the fall. The audition consists of hours of swaying movements; while the sensors are lively moves and the mouth parts touching kiss -like ( German name of the animal ). After copulation 10-15 eggs are deposited having a diameter of 2 mm in the wet soil. The young hatch after about 2 weeks.

System

The species was in 1832 by André Etienne Baron de Ferussac for the first time under the name Helix ( Helicigona ) lens described. It is the type species of the genus Lindholmiola Hesse, 1931. Belts snails are treated by some authors as yet subfamily ( Helicodontinae ) of deciduous snails ( Hygromiidae ). In more recent work, however, it is considered as a separate family within the Helicoidea. The Fauna Europaea and Bouchet and Rocroi make even a subdivision of the family of the belt screw into two subfamilies Helicodontinae and Lindholmiolinae Schileyko, 1978.