Classification
Scientific Name: Inflectarius rugeli
Common Name: Deep-tooth Shagreen
Inflectarius is defined as a genus of air-breathing land snails,
terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family
Polygyridae (answers.com). The Latin scientific name was first given by
Shuttleworth in 1852 (Malacologia, 1998). There is no information on what the Latin
name means but we assume that it was named after someone.
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Inflectarius
Species: Inflectarius rugeli
Eukarya: It is classified by having genetic material contained in a
nucleus and membrane bound organelles (Keeling,
2009).
Animalia: It is classified by being multicellular and
heterotrophic (answers.com).
Mollusca: It is classified by having a soft coelomate body with
a mantle, visceral mass, and muscular foot (Ramel,
2012).
Gastropoda: It is classified by having a single shell of calcium
carbonate, coiling, torsion, head and foot
(answers.com).
Stylommatophora: It
is classified by having two pairs of retractile tentacles with
eyes located on the tips of the large tentacles (answers.com).
Polygyridae: It is classified by not having a dart muscle, an absent diverticulum,
and an absent stimulatory organ
(answers.com).
Inflectarius:
Defining characteristics of Inflectarius are of
having a medium sized shell as well as a inverted heliciform
shell (Grimm, 2009). Members of the
Genus Inflectarius also have denticles lining their aperture as
well as their lip (Grimm, 2009).
Inflectarius rugeli:
Inflectarius rugeli is identified by having a depressed
heliciform, shell with whorls, large parietal tooth present,
periphery rounded , and a shell surface that has a short
periostracal process that appears as scales when points are
broken off (Dourson, 2012).
To learn more about the evolution of the
Inflectarius snail, click
HERE.