Corona pfeifferi

Corona pfeifferi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.

Corona pfeifferi
Corona pfeifferi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Orthalicidae
Subfamily:
Orthalicinae
Genus:
Corona
Species:
C. pfeifferi
Binomial name
Corona pfeifferi
(Hidalgo, 1869)[1]
Synonyms
  • Orthalicus pfeifferi Hidalgo, 1869
Corona pfeifferi (Hidalgo, 1869), museum specimen

Distribution

The distribution of Corona pfeifferi includes:

Description

The living animal of Corona pfeifferi has coarse, orange tubercles on a whitish skin.[2] The tentacles are greyish, with a blue hue near the tips.[2]

The shell has 8 whorls.[1]

The height of the shell of the type specimen is 59 mm. The width of the shell of the type specimen is 26 mm. The height of the aperture of the type specimen is 25 mm.[1]

apertural view
abapertural view

Reproductive system: The penis is proximally slender and subcylindrical, constricted at the base; median part is swollen, pear-shaped, tapering towards the distal part which is subcylindrical again. Transition to the epiphallus with a kink, thereafter gradually tapering; twisted. Vas deferens is adhering to and partially inside the penial complex. Flagellum has ca. 1/5 the total length of the penial complex. Internal structure of penial complex is with longitudinal folds in proximal part of penis, changing into a dense tubular network and a widened lumen in the distal part of the penis. The epiphallus has 3-4 longitudinal folds proximally, transversing into anatosmosing folds more distally. In the specimen dissected, a chitinous spermatophore was being formed with the shape of flagellum and epiphallus, its initial stage inside the flagellum and extending to the distal part of the penis.[2]

ventral overview of reproductive system
dorsal view of penial complex
half-schematic longitudinal section of penial complex

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[2]

  1. Hidalgo J. G. (1869). "Description d’espèces nouvelles". Journal de Conchyliologie 17: 410-413. Type description on the page 412.
  2. Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine.
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