Norelona pyrenaica

Norelona pyrenaica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Elonidae.

Norelona pyrenaica
Three views of the shell of Norelona pyrenaica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Elonidae
Genus:	Norelona H. Nordsiek, 1986
Species:	N. pyrenaica
Binomial name
Norelona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805)[1]
Synonyms
Helix pyrenaica Draparnaud, 1805 Elona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805)

Drawings of the shell of Norelona pyrenaica

Norelona pyrenaica is the type species of the genus Norelona.

Shell description

The shell is narrowly umbilicated, flattened above, thin, pellucid, olivaceous corneous. The shell has 4½^[2] whorls, that are rather flattened. The last whorl is not descending. The peristome is acute, reflected, white-lipped.^[3]

The width of the shell is 17–21 mm. The height of the shell is 9–11 mm.^[2]

Anatomy

This species of snail makes and uses love darts.^[4] (Image of reproductive system.)

Distribution

This species is endemic to the eastern Pyrenees, France.^[5] (map of distribution, map 2)

It is also known from Spain since 2007.^[6]