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Mirus stalix
Mirus stalix is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the subfamily Eninae of the family Enidae.[1] M. stalix are endemic to Sri Lanka.[2] They were first described in 1863 by British malacologist William Henry Benson.[3] DescriptionThe length of the shell attains 20 mm (0.79 in), its diameter 7 mm (0.28 in). (Original description in Latin) The shell is narrowly perforate, oblong-conic, somewhat solid, with obliquely irregularly folded striations and a very densely spirally striated epidermis. It is chestnut-coloured, marked with oblique streaks, while the suture, base, and apex are whitish. The spire is elongate-conic, with a somewhat blunt apex and a slightly impressed suture, sometimes margined. There are seven slightly convex whorls, the body whorl slightly compressed at the base and barely ascending anteriorly. The aperture is somewhat oblique, narrowly pear-shaped, chestnut-coloured inside, with a slightly expanded, faintly reflexed, whitish peristome. The margins are distant and not converging, with the columellar margin broad and joined above by an oblique chestnut-coloured callus. [3] References
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