Leucophytia bidentata facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Leucophytia bidentata |
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| Leucophytia bidentata on the right and Myosotella myosotis on the left | |
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Ellobioidea
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Ellobiidae
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Leucophytia
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L. bidentata
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| Leucophytia bidentata (Montagu, 1808)
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Leucophytia bidentata is a small type of snail that breathes air. It's a land animal and belongs to a group called gastropods, which includes snails and slugs. This particular snail is part of the family Ellobiidae.
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What Does Leucophytia bidentata Look Like?
The shell of this snail is quite small. It usually measures about 5 to 7 millimeters tall and 2 to 4 millimeters wide. That's roughly the size of a small pea!
Its shell can be white, or it might have a color like horn or reddish-brown. It has about 6 to 7 whorls, which are the spiral turns of the shell. These turns are only slightly rounded. The very last whorl makes up about 75% of the shell's total height. The top of the shell, called the apex, is pointed.
Inside the shell's opening, called the aperture, there's a white layer. There's also a ridge inside the shell called the parietalis, which is usually quite noticeable. Another part, the columellaris, is an inner lip that can be more or less developed. Unlike some snails, this one does not have an umbilicus, which is a small hole or depression at the center of the shell's base.
Where Does Leucophytia bidentata Live?
This snail is special because it lives in a "semi-marine" habitat. This means it lives near the sea but not fully in it. You can often find it in places like salt marshes, estuaries, or rocky shores where the tide comes in and out. It needs both land and some salty water to survive.
Where Can You Find This Snail?
Leucophytia bidentata is found along the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean. This includes countries like:
It also lives along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, for example in Turkey.
What's Its Common Name?
This snail is often called the two-toothed white snail. This name probably comes from the features inside its shell's opening.
