page_title: Holospira
section_title: Anatomy
hierarchical_section_title: Holospira / Anatomy
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of Holospira elizabethae.
context_page_description: Holospira is a genus of air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Urocoptidae.
  Holospira is the type genus of the subfamily 'Holospirinae Pilsbry, 1946'.
context_section_description: The foot is small, narrow for its length.
  The lung is long and narrow. Kidney is very narrowly triangular, being wider at the base, tapering anteriorly, slightly longer than the pericardium. There is apparently no secondary ureter.
  The buccal mass is small, about twice as long as wide, the oesophagus opening well forward. Salivary glands are not united, and in Holospira goldfussi they have long ducts.
  The jaw is thin, arcuate, with a wide median projection below or none. The radula is about four times as long as wide, with from 19.1.19 teeth (in Holospira pilsbryi) to 27.1.27 (in Holopsira nelsoni).
  The genital system is like this: there is an atrium of moderate length, the penis is short, with a very long vas deferens, the retractor muscle (p. r.) being inserted at or just beyond the slightly swollen penis, and proximally attached to the floor of the lung, as usual.
  The free retractor muscles, attached proximally to the axis at about the junction of the cone with the cylindrical portion of the shell, are excessively long.
caption: Drawing of Holospira elizabethae.
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