''Leptopoma perlucidum'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

with a

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and an operculum, a terrestrial

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the family Cyclophoridae. Leptopoma nitidum 2

Distribution

This species occurs in Indonesia,''Leptopoma nitidum''
BISHOGAI Data Base, accessed 2 April 2009.

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(Malaysia), the

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, and the

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Description

The shell width and height is about in females and in males. The color of the shell is actually translucently milky-white, and the green color is from the mantle.

References

* Vermeulen, J. J. (1999). Notes on the non-marine molluscs of the island of Borneo 9. The genera ''Cyclophorus'', ''Leptopoma'', and ''Craspedotropis'' (Gastropoda Prosobranchia: Cyclophoridae). Basteria. 63: 139-163. * Delsaerdt A. , 2016 Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Vol. III. Trochomorphidae and systematical review of all other families. Ancona: L'Informatore Piceno. 160 pp

External links

Grateloup, J.P.S. de. (1840 ["1839"]). Note sur un mémoire relatif à des molluques exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Actes de la Société Linnéene de Bordeaux. 11 : 161–170

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

Lesson R.P. (1830–1831). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, 2(1)

Pfeiffer, L. (1858). Monographia Pneumonopomorum viventium. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium hujus ordinis generum et specierum hodie cognitarum, accedente fossilium enume-ratione. Supplementum primum. i–vi, 1–249. Cassellis: Theodori Fischeri / London: Williams & Norgate / Paris: Friedr. Klincksieck

Pfeiffer, L. (1862). Descriptions of Sixteen New Species of Land-shells from the Collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 29 (25)

Iredale, T. (1941). A basic list of the land Mollusca of Papua. The Australian Zoologist. 10(1): 51–94, pls. 3–4

Bartsch, P. (1919). Critical remarks on Philippine landshells with descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 32: 15–19
* Cyclophoridae Fauna of Indonesia Invertebrates of Malaysia Molluscs of the Philippines Fauna of the Solomon Islands Gastropods described in 1840 {{Cyclophoridae-stub