Alcadia conuloides

Alcadia conuloides is a species of tropical land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae. ^[4]

Alcadia conuloides
Alcadia conuloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Family:	Helicinidae
Genus:	Alcadia
Species:	A. conuloides
Binomial name
Alcadia conuloides (Guppy, 1868)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Helicina conuloides Guppy, 1868 Alcadia (Idesa)? conuloides Baker, 1927[3]

Taxonomy

Robert John Lechmere Guppy (1895)^[1] considered this species synonymous with the taxon Schrammia schrammia (Crosse, 1872) from Guadeloupe, but that species is larger and higher-spired, and therefore Guppy's name was resurrected. Horace Burrington Baker (1927)^[3] suggested that Guppy's species probably belongs in the genus Alcadia, subgenus Idesa. Until the status of Schrammia and its two species can be resolved, we follow the last published work, that of Baker (1927).^[2][3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to the West Indian island of Dominica.^[2]

Ecology

This small species lives on wet leaves, being particularly active after rainfall, and on damp leaf litter. It is believed to feed on encrusting algae.^[2]