page_title: Trochulus hispidus
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Trochulus hispidus / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Scanning electron microscopic (SEM) images love-dart of Trichia hispida. Upper image is love dart from side view while the measure is 500 μm (0.5 mm). Lower image is cross-section while the measure is 50 μm.
context_page_description: Trochulus hispidus, previously known as Trichia hispida, common name, the "hairy snail", is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
context_section_description: The 3-6 x 5-11 mm shell has 5-6 moderately convex whorls which are rounded or very slightly keeled at the periphery. The aperture has a thin white lip inside. The umbilicus is open and usually wide at 1/8-1/4 of shell diameter. In colour the shell is brown to cream, sometimes with a light band at the periphery. The periostracum is irregularly striated, and densely covered with short (0.2-0.3 mm), curved hairs. These hairs usually remain in the umbilicus if worn away from the rest of the shell. Lost hairs leave pronounced scars.
  The animal is brownish grey with a darker anterior part.
caption: Scanning electron micrograph of the love dart of Trochulus hispidus, Upper image is lateral view - scale bar 500 μm (0.5 mm). Lower image is a cross-section near the base - scale bar 50 μm.
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