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Pleuroloba costellaris Salt Marsh Snail

Pleuroloba costellaris is commonly referred to as Salt Marsh Snail. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Javier Couper (Predomalpha), New Zealand

Pleuroloba costellaris, In hardened mud at high tide, Waipu, New Zealand 2022


Courtesy of the author Javier Couper (Predomalpha), New Zealand Photo taken by Javier Couper. Please visit www.inaturalist.org for more information.

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lexID:
14946 
AphiaID:
580111 
Scientific:
Pleuroloba costellaris 
German:
Küstenschnecke 
English:
Salt Marsh Snail 
Category:
Escargots de mer 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Ellobiida (Order) > Ellobiidae (Family) > Pleuroloba (Genus) > costellaris (Species) 
Initial determination:
(H. Adams & A. Adams, ), 1854 
Occurrence:
Endemic species, New Zealand 
Sea depth:
Meter 
Habitats:
Algae zones, Coastal waters, Rocky shores, Rock coasts, Salt marshes 
Size:
0" - 0.39" (0,8cm - 1,2cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 64.4 °F (°C - 18°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore), algae grazer, epiphytes feeder, Detritus 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2024-02-24 18:20:45 

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Pleuroloba costellaris (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)

Pleuroloba costellaris is a small air-breathing land snail or salt marsh snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Ellobiidae.
This species is endemic to New Zealand.

Synonymised names;
Melampus costellaris H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 · unaccepted (original combination)
Ophicardelus costellaris (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854) · unaccepted

External links

  1. New Zealand Mollusca (en). Abgerufen am 30.06.2022.

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Commonly

Pleuroloba costellaris,Onehunga, Auckland 1061, Nueva Zelanda 2024
Pleuroloba costellaris,Karaka, Nueva Zelanda 2023
Pleuroloba costellaris,Karaka, Nueva Zelanda 2023
Pleuroloba costellaris, Auckland, New Zealand 2023
Pleuroloba costellaris, Auckland, New Zealand 2023
Pleuroloba costellaris, In hardened mud at high tide, Waipu, New Zealand 2022

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