Lesticulus nocturnus is a species of predatory air-breathing land slug. It is a shell-less pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Trigonochlamydidae.[2]
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| Genus: | Lesticulus Schileyko, 1988[1]
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| Species: | L. nocturnus
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Lesticulus nocturnus is the only species in the genus Lesticulus.
Distribution edit
The distribution of Lesticulus nocturnus includes only its type locality.
The type locality of Lesticulus nocturnus is the Oficho Cave near Kumistavi village, near Tzkhaltubo, western Georgia.[2]
Ecology edit
Lesticulus nocturnus inhabits the cave.[2]
References edit
- ^ a b (in Russian) Шилейко А. А. [Schileyko A. A.] (1988). "Два новых троглобион тных вида наземных легочных моллюсков (Daudebardiidae и Trigonochlamydidae) Гру зии." [Two new troglobiont species of terrestrial pulmonate molluscs (Daudebardiidae and Trigonochlamydidae) from Georgia". Зоологический Журнал [Zoologicheskij Zhurnal] 67(11): 1730-1735.
- ^ a b c Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.