Plectostoma laidlawi

Plectostoma laidlawi is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.

Plectostoma laidlawi
Pteroptyx cf. valida larva attacking Plectostoma laidlawi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Cyclophoroidea
Family:
Diplommatinidae
Genus:
Plectostoma
Species:
P. laidlawi
Binomial name
Plectostoma laidlawi
(Sykes, 1902)

Ecology

Predators of Plectostoma laidlawi include larvae of Pteroptyx valida.[1]

References
  1. 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. doi:10.7717/peerj.329.


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