page_title: Edentulina moreleti
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Edentulina moreleti / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of apertural view of a shell of Edentulina moreleti
context_page_description: Edentulina moreleti is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.
context_section_description: The species gives live birth rather than laying eggs. The newborn snails are yellow in color. Juvenile snails are also yellow with crimson tentacles. Adult snails are dark brown, but Martens (1898) described the body as red.
  The reproductive anatomy and radula have been described by J. Gerlach & A. C. van Bruggen (1999). The formula of the radula is 29 + 1 + 29. Salivary glands are bilobed.
  The color of the shell is a tan brown. The width of the shell is 5.3-6.5 mm. The height of the shell is 11.0-14.0 mm. The shape of the shell is bulimoid. The shell has 6.75-7.75 whorls. There is no spiral sculpture on the shell.
  The only other species of Edentulina on the Seychelles is Edentulina dussumieri, which is the most abundant streptaxid snail there. Edentulina moreleti is smaller than Edentulina dussumieri which is over 14 mm in shell height, and Edentulina dussumieri has spiral sculpture on the shell.
caption: adult shell
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