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Oligospira skinneri

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Oligospira skinneri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Informal group: Sigmurethra
Family: Acavidae
Genus: Oligospira
Species:
O. skinneri
Binomial name
Oligospira skinneri
(Reeve, 1854)
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

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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

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  1. ^ "Land Snails of Sri Lanka". Young Biologists' Association Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  2. ^ Reeve, Lovell (1854). Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals. Vol. 7. London: Reeve Brothers. pp. 381–382.