Alcadia schrammi

Alcadia schrammi is a species of an operculate land snail, terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Helicinidae.^[1]

Alcadia schrammi
Shell of Alcadia schrammi (syntype at the MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Family:	Helicinidae
Genus:	Alcadia
Species:	A. schrammi
Binomial name
Alcadia schrammi (Crosse, 1872)
Synonyms[1]
Alcadia (Idesa) schrammi (Crosse, 1872) (unaccepted combination) Helicina (Schrammia) schrammi Crosse, 1872 superseded combination Helicina schrammi Crosse, 1872 (original combination) Schrammia schrammi (Crosse, 1872) (unaccepted combination)

Description

The height of the shell attains 5 mm (0.20 in), its greatest diameter 5.67 mm (0.22 in).^{[citation needed]}

(Original description in Latin) The turbinated-conical shell shows minute growth striae. It is thin and scarcely conspicuously impressed. It is translucent, somewhat shiny, horn-colored and unicolored. The spire is moderately elevated, with a somewhat sharp apex. The suture is impressed. the shell contains 5 slightly flat whorls, the body whorl scarcely surpassing the spire. The whorls are obtusely subcarinate at the periphery and somewhat flat at the base. The columella is short, emitting a small, milky callus. The aperture is oblique, somewhat triangular and is horn-colored on the inside. The peristome is simple, with thin, fragile, sharp basal and outer margins. The thin operculum is horn-colored. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Guadeloupe.^[1]