Pacificella baldwini is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae.
Description The length of the shell attains 2.5 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is oblong-ovate in shape, imperforate, thin, translucent, horn-colored, and glossy, appearing under a lens as only very faintly striated. The spire is conoid and rises slightly above the aperture, with a somewhat sharp apex. There are four convex whorls, rapidly increasing in size, the body whorl being oblong. The aperture is sharply oblong-ovate, not compressed externally, and bears on the parietal wall a rather small, coiling lamella. The columella is thickened, whitish, toothless, and obliquely twisted, continuing anteriorly into the margin.
Distribution This species occurs on Oahu Island, Hawaii.
References
Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. vi + 248 pp. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.
External links
Gbif.org - Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: images