''Drymaeus inconspicuus'' is a species of tropical air-breathing

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mollusk in the family

Bulimulidae Bulimulidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bulimulidae Tryon, ...

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Distribution

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Description

Adult specimens of ''Drymaeus inconspicuus'' can measure up to 25 mm shell height. The species is characterized by the corneous-brown upper

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and the suture, which is bordered by a white line, descending slightly in front. Haas (1949) compared this species to ''

Bulimulus transparens ''Bulimulus'' is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical or sub-tropical, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Bulimulinae within the family Bulimulidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and su ...

'' (Reeve, 1849), stating that his material was slightly smaller (17 vs. 19 mm shell height). The type material of ''Bulimulus transparens'' is in the Natural History Museum (BMNH 1975397) and is labelled ‘Venezuela’ (Breure, 1978: 147).Breure A. S. H. (1978). "Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda)". '' Zoologische Verhandelingen'' Leiden ''164'': 1-255. If this locality is correct, a close relationship as suggested by Haas seems improbable.

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference {{Taxonbar, from=Q4996428 Bulimulus Gastropods described in 1949