The shell of mature snails is 1.6–1.8 mm in height, with a diameter of 3.2–3.5 mm, discoidal with a flat to slightly sunken spire, with rounded whorls, impressed sutures and widely spaced radial ribs. It is uniformly coppery-brown in colouration. The umbilicus is widely open. The aperture is ovately lunate. The animal has a white body.[1]
diphyoropa, saturni, also, known, sydney, copper, pinwheel, snail, species, pinwheel, snail, that, endemic, eastern, australia, scientific, classification, kingdom, animalia, phylum, mollusca, class, gastropoda, unranked, clade, heterobranchia, clade, euthyneu. Diphyoropa saturni also known as the Sydney copper pinwheel snail is a species of pinwheel snail that is endemic to eastern Australia 1 Diphyoropa saturni Scientific classification Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Gastropoda unranked clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneuraclade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra Superfamily Punctoidea Family Charopidae Genus Diphyoropa Species D saturni Binomial name Diphyoropa saturni Cox 1864 Synonyms Dentherona saturni Cox 1864 Helix costulata Cox 1864 Helix saturni Cox 1864Description editThe shell of mature snails is 1 6 1 8 mm in height with a diameter of 3 2 3 5 mm discoidal with a flat to slightly sunken spire with rounded whorls impressed sutures and widely spaced radial ribs It is uniformly coppery brown in colouration The umbilicus is widely open The aperture is ovately lunate The animal has a white body 1 Distribution editThe snail has a natural range extending from south eastern Queensland to south eastern New South Wales It has been introduced to Victoria and Lord Howe Island 1 References edit a b c Hyman Isabel Kohler Frank 2020 A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island Sydney Australian Museum ISBN 978 0 9750476 8 2 MolluscaBase eds 2021 Diphyoropa saturni Cox 1864 MolluscaBase Flanders Marine Institute Retrieved 2021 07 16 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a author has generic name help This Charopidae related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Diphyoropa saturni amp oldid 1034502736, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
