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Cochlodina laminata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.[2]
- Subspecies
- Cochlodina laminata albanica S. H. F. Jaeckel, 1956
- Cochlodina laminata grossa (Rossmässler, 1835)
- Cochlodina laminata insulana E. Gittenberger, 1967
- Cochlodina laminata laminata (Montagu, 1803)
- Cochlodina laminata nana (Möllendorff, 1873)
- Cochlodina laminata oreinos (A. J. Wagner, 1914)
- Cochlodina laminata partita (Westerlund, 1892)
| Cochlodina laminata | |
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| Shell of Cochlodina laminata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Genus: | Cochlodina |
| Species: | C. laminata |
| Binomial name | |
| Cochlodina laminata (Montagu, 1803) | |
| Synonyms | |
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This species occurs in much of Europe, including:[1]
Like all species in the family Clausiliidae, Cochlodina laminata has a clausilium or "door". The second image shows the shape of the clausilium in this species.
The shell is brown to cherry red, nearly smooth and shiny. The parietalis is small, the columellaris is more prominent, the palatal callus is weak, the subcolumellaris is visible in an oblique view. .[4]
The weight of the adult live snail is about 138±5 mg.[5]
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