Opisthostoma pulchellum
| Opisthostoma pulchellum | |
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| Drawing of the shell of Opisthostoma pulchellum. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Diplommatinidae |
| Genus: | Opisthostoma |
| Subgenus: | Plectostoma |
| Species: | O. pulchellum |
| Binomial name | |
| Opisthostoma pulchellum | |
Opisthostoma pulchellum is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.
Distribution
References
- ↑ Menno Schilthuizen (2003) Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2003, 3:13 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-3-13
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