Classification
Scientific Name: Inflectarius kalmianus
The scientific name Inflectarius kalmianus comes from the Latin roots inflect- to bend in, to turn; arius - pertaining to one. The name kalmianus on the other hand, can sometimes be rooted back to the 1700 naturalist Kalm, but Hubricht did not in fact state the etymology of the name and therefore the origin for this species can't be determined.
Common Name: Brown globelet
The common name relates to its brown color, which resembles Mesodon clausus (common name is yellow globelet).
Inflectarius kalmianus is most closely related to Mesodon downieanus (Bland).
Each of these classifications divides Inflectarius kalmianus into a group of its own characteristics.
Domain Eukarya:
Inflectarius kalmianus is in the domain Eukarya
because it retains a membrane bound nucleus (Hickman
et al. 2009).
Kingdom Animalia: This species is
classified under the kingdom Animalia because it's a eukaryotic organism that includes
vertebrates and invertebrates that is multi-cellular
and heterotrophic (Hickman
et al. 2009).
Phylum Mollusca: It has bilateral
symmetry with a triploblastic body and a shell that undergoes spiral cleavage.
It also has a complex digestive system (Hickman
et al. 2009).
Class Gastropoda:
To be classified under the class Gastropoda, means
the species is a trochozoan with a protostome development. It’s a slow
moving organism that has torsion (Hickman
et al. 2009).
Order Stylommatophora: This species
is classified under the order Stylommatophora
because it's a terrestrial pulmonate (air-breathing
land snail) gastropod with two pairs of tentacles that
also lack gills because while adapting to a
terrestrial state, the mantle cavity has become a
lung (Hickman et al. 2009).
This order of land snails and slugs is the largest
of the pulmonates (Burch,
1962).
Family Polygyridae: The organism
has a medium-sized shell with a reflected lip which
puts it into the classification Polygyridae, which
is a family of air-breathing mollusks such as land
snails. (Encyclopedia
of Life, 2012).
Genus Inflectarius: This organism
is under the genus Inflectarius because it is
characterized by the size of their shell, which doesn't contain
teeth (Dourson, 2010).
Species Inflectarius
kalmianus: This species is commonly known as the brown globelet for it's
brownish shade on its shell. It also possesses
4.5-5.5 whorls (Burch, 1962).
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