Classification
Domain- Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Neohelix
Species: Neohelix albolabris
(NatureServe Explorer 2012)
Domain: Eukaryota:
Neohelix albolabris is part of the Eukaryota domain because
its cells contain a nucleus (Eisenhour et al., 2012).
Kingdom: Animalia: Neohelix
albolabris is part of the Animalia kingdom as oppose to the
other 5 kingdoms are the fact that snails are multicellular,
possess organs, are heterotrophic (feed off of other organisms),
and do not have cell walls (Eisenhour et al., 2012).
Phylum: Mollusca: Snails are mollusks because they have a
soft body, a single hard shell, undergo torsion (the process of
twisting during the development of a snail) and a muscular foot,
which are three are very important features to the Mollusca
phylum (Eisenhour et al., 2012).
Class: Gastropoda: Gastropoda means belly foots (Gillis
2012). Gastropods
are different from the other classes by possessing a radula, an
organ that assists in scraping off algae or other forms of food
(Gillis 2012).
Order: Stylommatophora: An
eye located at the tip of a pair of tentacles is what puts
N. albolabris into the
order of Stylommatophora (Klappenbach).
Family: Polygyridae:
N. albolabris is in the family of Polygyridae because of the
fact that is has a reflected outer lip on the shell. In the case
of this specific species, it is the white lip that it is named
after (Baker 1939).
Genus: Neohelix: All species in the genus Neohelix have the
characteristic of being a terrestrial, air-breathing snail
(Wikipedia).
Species: Neohelix
albolabris: Album means white and labrum means rim or
edge in Latin, meaning that
N. albolabris has a white rim around the edge of the shell
(stars21.com).
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