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Species of gastropod
| Calocochlea pulcherrima
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| Shell of Calocochlea pulcherrima from Philippines at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Mollusca
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| Class:
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Gastropoda
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| Order:
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Stylommatophora
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| Family:
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Camaenidae
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| Genus:
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Calocochlea
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| Species:
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C. pulcherrima
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| Binomial name
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Calocochlea pulcherrima
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1841)
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| Synonyms
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- Calocochlea luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (junior synonym)
- Calocochlea luzonica luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (junior synonym)
- Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) chrysacme Quadras & Möllendorff, 1893 (junior synonym)
- Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (superseded combination)
- Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) luzonica luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (superseded combination)
- Cochlostyla (Callicochlias) pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination)
- Cochlostyla chrysacme Quadras & Möllendorff, 1893 (junior synonym)
- Cochlostyla luzonica (Reeve, 1842) (junior synonym)
- Cochlostyla pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination)
- Helicostyla (Calocochlea) pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination)
- Helicostyla pulcherrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1841) (superseded combination)
- Helix (Cochlogena) pulcherrima G. B. Sowerby I, 1841 (original combination)
- Helix luzonica Reeve, 1842 (junior synonym)
- Helix luzonica L. Pfeiffer, 1842 (junior synonym)
- Helix pulcherrima G. B. Sowerby I, 1841
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Calocochlea pulcherrima is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.[1]
This species is very common in the Philippines. The shell is between 31 and 46 millimeters long with brown spiral bands and a cream-colored background.
References
- Pfeiffer, L. (1842). Descriptions of new species of shells belonging to the genera Helix and Bulimus, collected by H. Cuming, Esq, in the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 10 (113): 84–89. London
- ABBOTT, R.T., 1989: Compendium of landshells: a colour guide to more than 2,000 of the World's Terrestrial Shells. American Malacologists Inc., Burlington, USA.
External links
- Sowerby, G. B., I. (1841). Descriptions of new species of the family Helicidae, collected by Mr. H. Cuming in the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 8: 87-91, 96-104, 116-118
- Reeve L.A. (1841-1842). Conchologia Systematica, or complete system of conchology; in which the Lepades and conchiferous Mollusca are described and classified according to their natural organization and habits. Longman, Brown, Green, & Longman's, London. Vol. 1: 1-195, pls 1-129; Vol. 2: 1-338, pls 130-300
- Richardson, L. (1983). Bradybaenidae: Catalog of species. Tryonia. 9: 1-253
- Quadras, J. F. & Möllendorf, O. F. von. (1893). Diagnoses specierum novarum ex parte septentrionali insulae Luzon. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 25(11-12): 169 - 184
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