Alopia canescens is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae.
Subspecies Alopia canescens ambigua M. Kimakowicz, 1883 Alopia canescens caesarea (M. Kimakowicz, 1894) Alopia canescens canescens (Charpentier, 1852) Alopia canescens costata (E. A. Bielz, 1859) Alopia canescens haueri (E. A. Bielz, 1859) Alopia canescens nefaria (M. Kimakowicz, 1894) Alopia canescens striicollis H. Nordsieck, 2024
Description The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 14 mm, its diameter is 4 mm.
(Original description in Latin) It differs from Alopia livida straminicollis (Charpentier, 1852), to which it is very similar in appearance, by having a more constricted, somewhat turreted-fusiform shell, entirely smooth and frosted. It lacks palatal folds.
Distribution This species occurs in Romania.
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