General Description

Shell medium, reddish brown with darker radial streaks, 5 whorls (turns), low-domed spire, sculpture of fine radial ribs above, smooth below, wide space within the middle of the whorls of the shell (umbilicus). Size variable, shell can be over 2 cm.

Biology

This snail belongs to the carnivorous family Rhytididae. All of the eastern Australian rhytidids are ground-dwellers and shelter under logs, rocks and moist leaf litter. Their diet generally consists of snails and other invertebrates such as earthworms.

Distribution

South-eastern Australia.

Habitat

Under logs, rocks and moist leaf litter.

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