Pontophaedusa funiculum | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Subfamily: | Serrulininae
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Species: | P. funiculum
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Binomial name | |
Pontophaedusa funiculum | |
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Clausilia funiculum Mousson, 1856 |
Pontophaedusa funiculum is a species of land snail, a gastropod in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails within the subfamily Serrulininae.[2] All door snails have a clausilium with which they can close the shell aperture.
This is the only known species within the Clausiliidae that lays eggs that have hard shells made of calcium carbonate.[3]
Pontophaedusa funiculum lives on the eastern coast of the Black Sea from Sochi in Russia, though Georgia, to Trabzon in Turkey.[3]