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''Plectostoma concinnum'' is a species of air-breathing
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 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 in the family Diplommatinidae.
Description
Ecology
Predators of ''Plectostoma concinnum'' include slugs of the genus ''Atopos
''Atopos'' is a genus of carnivorous air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rathouisiidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Atopos'' include:
* ''Atopos aborense'' (Ghosh, 1913)
*'' Atopos australis'' ...
''.Liew T.-S. & Schilthuizen M. (2014). "Association between shell morphology of micro-land snails (genus ''Plectostoma'') and their predator’s predatory behaviour". ''PeerJ'' 2: e329. .
References
External links
Diplommatinidae Gastropods described in 1901 {{Diplommatinidae-stub