Norelona pyrenaica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Elonidae.
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Three views of the shell of Norelona pyrenaica | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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Genus: | H. Nordsiek, 1986
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Species: | N. pyrenaica
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Norelona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805)[1]
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Helix pyrenaica Draparnaud, 1805 |
Norelona pyrenaica is the type species of the genus Norelona.
The shell is narrowly umbilicated, flattened above, thin, pellucid, olivaceous corneous. The shell has 4½[2] whorls, that are rather flattened. The last whorl is not descending. The peristome is acute, reflected, white-lipped.[3]
The width of the shell is 17–21 mm. The height of the shell is 9–11 mm.[2]
This species of snail makes and uses love darts.[4] (Image of reproductive system.)
This species is endemic to the eastern Pyrenees, France.[5] (map of distribution, map 2)
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