Stenotrema florida

Stenotrema florida, common name the Apalachicola slitmouth, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

Stenotrema florida
Stenotrema florida shell with a close-up view of the periostracal "hairs"
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S. florida
Binomial name
Stenotrema florida
Pilsbry, 1940

The common name refers to Apalachicola, Florida, USA.

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