Sagda alligans | |
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Illustration of adult and juvenile shells of Sagda alligans | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Sagdidae |
Genus: | Sagda |
Species: | S. alligans
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Binomial name | |
Sagda alligans (
Reeve, 1851)
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Sagda alligans is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sagdidae.
The shell is imperforate, globosely conoidal, white, under a brownish-yellow epidermis. The incremental striae are regular, stronger on the spire than on the body whorl. The number of whorls is 8. The shell has a narrow, aperture with a deep-seated strong basal lamella. [1]
The adult shell diameter is 15–20 mm.
This species occurs in Jamaica. [1]