TN00456 ELK RIVER FILE SNAIL LITHASIA VERRUCOSA LIMA
TN00456PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: SHELL IS OBLONG AND SUBOVAL WITH 5 SLIGHTLY ROUNDED WHORLS, BODY WHORL IS MARKED BY SEVERAL ROWS (1-6) OF SUBEQUAL EQUALLY SPACED GRANULES OR TUBERCLES WHICH ARE NOT HIGHER THAN WIDE, THESE TUBERCLES ARE OFTEN EVIDENT ON THE SECOND AND THIRD WHORLS, SPIRE IS OFTEN DECORTICATED OR ERODED, SUTURES ARE NOT WELL IMPRESSED, APERTURE IS LONGER THAN OR ABOUT EQUAL TO THE SPIRE LENGTH, THERE IS A DISTINCT CALLUS ON THE DORSAL PART OF THE PARIETAL WALL AND A SLIGHT CALLUS NEAR THE BASE OF THE COLUMELLA JUST ABOVE THE INSIPIENT SINUS, EPIDERMIS IS YELLOWISH-GREEN AND PARIETAL WALL OF THE APERTURE IS WHITISH, THE FORM LIMA DIFFERS FROM VERRUCOSA BY BEING CONICAL WITH AN ANGULATE BODY WHORL COVERED WITH NODULOSE SPIRAL LINES OF UNEQUAL SIZE, AN OBTUSELY POINTED BASE, AND HAVING THE INTERIOR OF THE BODY WHORL MARKED BY PURPLE BANDS *TN5587* REPRODUCTION: OVIVAPAROUS *TN5587*
References for Life History Codes
2574, 2121, 1178, 835, 2576, 2584, 2199, 1230, 2486, 2588, 2571, CPC1, 4205
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