Cochlodina laminata

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
Shell of Cochlodina laminata
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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
Cochlodina (Cochlodina) laminata (Montagu, 1803)· accepted, alternate representation Turbo laminatus Montagu, 1803 (original name)

Distribution

This species occurs in much of Europe, including:^[1]

• The Czech Republic
• Bulgaria
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Slovakia
• Ukraine^[3]
• Ireland
• Great Britain

Description

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]

The clausilium of Cochlodina laminata