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- Title
A twist of nature: a left-handed Bythinella schmidti (Küster, 1852) (Caenogastropoda: Bythinellidae).
- Authors
PREVORČNIK, Simona; FALNIOWSKI, Andrzej
- Abstract
As most extant snails, Bythinella schmidti is characterised by dextral (right-handed) coiling of the shell. Nevertheless, a small sinistral (left-handed) individual from the spring on a mountain pasture was sampled, together with its larger dextral conspecifics. In our report on this first case of sinistrality within the superfamily Truncatelloidea, we discuss its shell abnormalities and provide a review on chirality in snails.
- Subjects
NEOGASTROPODA; SNAIL shells; PASTURE ecology
- Publication
Natura Sloveniae: Revija za Terensko Biologijo / Journal of Field Biology, 2018, Vol 20, Issue 2, p25
- ISSN
1580-0814
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14720/ns.20.2.25-31