{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox |status=LC |status_system=IUCN3.1 |status_ref= | image = Alopia livida 001.jpg | image_caption = Shell of ''Alopia livida'' | taxon = Alopia livida | authority = (Menke, 1828) | synonyms= * ''Alopia (Alopia) livida'' <small>(Menke, 1828)</small> · alternative representation * ''Alopia (Alopia) livida bipalatalis'' <small>(M. Kimakowicz, 1883)</small> (junior synonym) * ''Alopia livida bipalatalis'' <small>(M. Kimakowicz, 1883)</small> (junior synonym) * ''Balea livida'' <small>(Menke, 1828)</small> superseded combination * ''Clausilia (Alopia) livida'' <small>Menke, 1828</small> superseded combination * ''Clausilia (Alopia) livida f. bipalatalis'' <small>M. Kimakowicz, 1883</small> superseded combination * ''Clausilia livida'' <small>Menke, 1828</small> (original name) |range_map= Alopia-plumbea-map-eur-nm-moll.jpg }}
'''''Alopia livida ''''' is a species of small, tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|1049734|''Alopia livida '' (Menke, 1828)|3 September 2024}}</ref>
;Subspecies: * ''Alopia livida deaniana'' <small>A. H. Cooke, 1922</small> * ''Alopia livida julii'' <small>A. J. Wagner, 1914</small> * ''Alopia livida livida'' <small>(Menke, 1828</small>) * ''Alopia livida straminicollis'' <small>(Charpentier, 1852)</small> * ''Alopia livida vargabandii'' <small>Fehér & Szekeres, 2019</small>
==Description== The length of the shell varies between 12 mm and 2 mm, its diameter between 3.5 mm and 5 mm.
(Description in Latin of ''Balea livida'') A dextral, fusiform shell with a slit. The shell is violet, featuring a white suture and fine striations. The aperture is broadly oval, and the cervix (the section of the shell between the aperture and the spire) is white and striated. The peristome is continuous, attached, slightly reflexed, and lip-like. The columella has a single fold, and there is a small fold on the aperture wall.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rossmässler |first1=E.A. |title=Iconographie der Land- & Süßwasser- Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten |date=1838–1844 |publisher=Arnoldische Buchhandlung |location=Dresden and Leipzig |page=16 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24986222 |access-date=3 September 2024}} {{source-attribution}}</ref>
==Distribution== This species occurs in Romania.<ref name="WoRMS" />
==References== {{reflist}} * <{{cite journal |last1=Kimakowicz |first1=M. von |title=Beitrag zur Mollusken-Fauna Siebenbürgens |journal=Verhandlungen und Mittheilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften |date=1883 |volume=33 |page=60 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34049888}} * {{cite book |last1=Menke |first1=K.T. |title=. Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omnium et specierum earum, quae in Museo Menkeano adservantur; cum synonymia critica et novarum specierum diagnosibus |date=1828 |publisher=Pyrmonti |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13119590}} * {{cite book |last1=Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. |title=Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017 |date=2017}}
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livida Category:Gastropods described in 1828 Category:Endemic fauna of Romania Category:Taxa named by Karl Theodor Menke