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.

Cochlodina laminata
Shell of Cochlodina laminata
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Genus:	Cochlodina
Species:	C. laminata
Binomial name
Cochlodina laminata (Montagu, 1803)
Synonyms[2]
{{collap[sible list | Clausilia (Clausiliastra) laminata (Montagu, 1803) Clausilia laminata (Montagu, 1803) Clausilia laminata var. granatina L. Pfeiffer, 1848 Clausilia laminata var. occidentalis Bourguignat, 1877 Clausilia laminata var. subrubra Wattebled, 1889 Cochlodina (Cochlodina) laminata (Montagu, 1803) Turbo laminatus Montagu, 1803 }}

Six subspecies are recognized:^[2]

• Cochlodina laminata albanica S. H. F. Jaeckel, 1956
• Cochlodina laminata grossa (Rossmässler, 1835)
• Cochlodina laminata laminata (Montagu, 1803)
• Cochlodina laminata nana (Möllendorff, 1873)
• Cochlodina laminata oreinos (A. J. Wagner, 1914)
• Cochlodina laminata partita (Westerlund, 1892)

Distribution

This species occurs in much of Europe, as well as Russia and Ukraine.^[1]

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. .^[3]

The weight of the adult live snail is about 138±5 mg.^[4]

The clausilium of Cochlodina laminata