Gittenbergeria turriplana is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trissexodontidae.Gittenbergeri turriplana. Fauna Europaea, last update 27 January 2011, accessed 12 May 2011.Prieto C. E., Puente A. I, Altonaga K. & Gomez J. (1993). "Genital morphology of Caracolina lenticula (Michaud, 1831), with a new proposal of classification of helicodontoid genera (Pulmonata: Hygromioidea)". Malacologia 35(1): 63-77. page 73-74.
Distribution
This species is endemic to the Algarve, southern Portugal."Species summary for Gittenbergeria turriplana". AnimalBase, last modified 31 January 2010, accessed 12 May 2011. It is a frequent species in the Algarve and locally very common.
Description The shell is brown with a characteristic microsculpture, depressed with a strong keel. The first whorls are almost flat. The aperture is narrow. Margin reflected and turned outward. There are two teeth on the lower edge corresponding to 2 conspicuous depressions on the outer shell. The umbilicus is open and eccentric.
The width of the shell is 12–14 mm. The height of the shell is 5–6 mm.
Animal is almost black with a lighter foot, upper tentacles very long.
Ecology It lives in low altitudes on calcareous substrate, close to the coast. It is frequent at old walls and in old gardens and parks in cities, also in shrublands and cultivated areas.
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