Lesticulus nocturnus
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| Lesticulus nocturnus | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Trigonochlamydidae |
| Subfamily: | Trigonochlamydinae |
| Genus: | Lesticulus Schileyko, 1988[1] |
| Species: | L. nocturnus
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| Binomial name | |
| Lesticulus nocturnus Schileyko, 1988[1]
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Lesticulus nocturnus is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae.[2]
L. nocturnus is the only species in the genus Lesticulus.
Distribution
[edit | edit source]The distribution of L. nocturnus includes only its type locality.
The type locality of L. nocturnus is the Oficho Cave near Kumistavi village, near Tzkhaltubo, western Georgia.[2]
Ecology
[edit | edit source]L. nocturnus inhabits the cave.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b (in Russian) Шилейко А. А. [Schileyko A. A.] (1988). "Два новых троглобион тных вида наземных легочных моллюсков (Daudebardiidae и Trigonochlamydidae) Гру зии." [Two new troglobiont species of terrestrial pulmonate molluscs (Daudebardiidae and Trigonochlamydidae) from Georgia". Зоологический Журнал [Zoologicheskij Zhurnal] 67(11): 1730–1735.
- ^ a b c Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on 22 December 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.
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