Oligospira skinneri
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Informal group: | Sigmurethra |
Family: | Acavidae |
Genus: | Oligospira |
Species: | O. skinneri
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Binomial name | |
Oligospira skinneri (Reeve, 1854)
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Synonyms | |
Acavus skinneri Reeve, 1854 |
Oligospira skinneri is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Description
[edit]Shell is shiny light brown to rosy in color with some small white spots on it. Lip of the shell is meat red.[1] It is named after Major Skinner.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Land Snails of Sri Lanka". Young Biologists' Association Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ^ Reeve, Lovell (1854). Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals. Vol. 7. London: Reeve Brothers. pp. 381–382.