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Labyrinthus umbrus

Labyrinthus umbrus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Labyrinthidae.

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Labyrinthus umbrus
Shells of Labyrinthus umbrus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Labyrinthidae
Genus: Labyrinthus
Species:
L. umbrus
Binomial name
Labyrinthus umbrus
Thompson, 19571

Labyrinthus umbrus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Labyrinthidae.

This taxon was described as Labyrinthus umbrus by Fred Gilbert Thompson from Rancho Grande, Aragua in Venezuela in 1957.1

Alan Solem considered this taxon as a subspecies Labyrinthus leucodon umbrus in 1966.2

Distribution

This species occurs in:

References

References

  1. Thompson F. G. (20 Nevemeber) 1957. A Collection of mollusks from Northern Venezuela. Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, number 591: 1-10. Labyrinthus umbrus is on the page 6-7.
  2. Solem A. (31 May) 1966. The Neotropical land snail genera: Labyrinthus and Isomeria (Pulmonata, Camaenidae). Fieldiana: Zoology, volume 50: page 58-59.