Allopeas acmella

Allopeas acmella is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.^[1]

Allopeas acmella
Drawing of a shell of Allopeas acmella (holotype)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Genus:	Allopeas
Species:	A. acmella
Binomial name
Allopeas acmella (Morelet, 1885)
Synonyms
Stenogyra acmella Morelet, 1885 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 4 ¼ mm.

(Original description in Latin) The crystalline and smooth shell is small, turreted and needle-shaped, with a slightly blunt apex. It has 7 barely convex whorls, bordered by a finely toothed suture, with the body whorl making up about one-fourth of the shell's length. The aperture is ovate-lunate, with simple, curved margins, and the columellar margin slightly expanded and reflected at the top. ^[2]

Distribution

This species was found in the Mayumba National Park, Gabon.