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Orculella Multidentata
''Orculella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orculidae. The genus ''Orculella'' occurs in the whole Mediterranean region. The richest areas in terms of species are Turkey and the Middle East, the Aegean Islands (mainly Crete) and Libya (Cyrenaica). A few species inhabit Southern Spain (Orculella bulgarica, ''O. bulgarica''), Sicily (Orculella templorum, ''O. templorum'') and northeastern Africa (Orculella tingitana, ''O. tingitana''). Species in the genera ''Schileykula'' and ''Orculella'' are indistinguishable based on shell characters only. They differ however in the genitalia, primarily in the presence (''Orculella'') or absence (''Schileykula'') of a penial appendix. Species and subspecies Species and subspecies in the genus ''Orculella'' include: * ''Orculella astirakiensis'' Gittenberger & Hausdorf 2004 * ''Orculella brandti'' (Zilch 1960)Zilch, A. (1960). "Neue Landschnecken aus der C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animalia
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a bilaterally symmetric body plan. The Bilateria include the protostomes, containing animals such as nematodes, arthropods, flatworms, annelids and molluscs, and the deuterostomes, containing the echinode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
