page_title: Ovachlamys fulgens
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Ovachlamys fulgens / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: drawing of apical, apertural and umbilical view of the shell of Ovachlamys fulgens
context_page_description: Ovachlamys fulgens is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicarionidae.
  Ovachlamys fulgens was originally discovered and described as Macrochlamys fulgens by the British malacologist Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude in 1900.
context_section_description: The shell of this species is perforate, trochoid, thin, shining, pellucid and dark corneous. The spire is depressed. The apex is obtuse. Sutures are linear and margined. The shell has four whorls, that are increasing rather suddenly. The last whorl is convex and a little inflated and it is twice as wide as the penultimate whorl. Whorls are finely striated, decussated by microscopic spiral lines. The last whorl is not descending and it is slightly excavated in the umbilical region.
  The aperture is slightly oblique, lunate. The peristome is thin, straight, acute. Margins of the paerture are distant, sub-parallel, the columellar margin a little reflected and nearly covering the very narrow umbilical perforation.
  The width of the shell is 6–7 mm. The height of the shell is 4,5 mm.
  These snails are sometimes called "jumping snails" because the tail is modified with a caudal horn and the posterior part of the foot acts as a catapult to push off from contiguous substrates allowing the snail to suddenly move several inches.
caption: The drawings in the type description were created by the illustrator John Nugent Fitch and show apical, apertural and umbilical views of the shell of Ovachlamys fulgens.
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