Brachypodella caymanensis is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Brachypodellinae of the family Urocoptidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Brachypodella caymanensis Pilsbry, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1488905 on 2026-07-06
Description The length of the shell attains 7.3 mm, its diameter 1.8 mm.
(Original description) The slender, fusiform shell is pale brown, narrowly truncate, leaving 10.5 strongly convex whorls. The last half of the body whorl descends more rapidly, is free, rounded and without angulation. The first half whorl is prominent, smooth, the next two embryonic whorls are very finely and regularly striate axially. Postembryonic whorls are more convex. Their sculpture consists of somewhat retractive ribs narrower than their intervals; on the penultimate whorl about 30 ribs, the intervals twice the width of the ribs. The aperture is subcircular, somewhat oblique; the peristome is reflected, narrower in the outer margin, giving the opening a shortly ovate shape. The internal axis is slender, straight and smooth. Pilsbry, H. A. (1930). Results of the Pinchot South Sea Expedition - I. Land mollusks of the Caribbean Islands, Grand Cayman, Swan, Old Providence and St. Andrew. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 82: 221-261, pls 15-19. Philadelphia.
Distribution This snail occurs in the Cayman Islands.
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