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Lesticulus nocturnus

Lesticulus nocturnus is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae.

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Lesticulus nocturnus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Trigonochlamydidae
Subfamily: Trigonochlamydinae
Genus: Lesticulus
Schileyko, 19881
Species:
L. nocturnus
Binomial name
Lesticulus nocturnus
Schileyko, 19881

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

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

L. nocturnus inhabits the cave.2

References

References

  1. (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.
  2. 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.