Sphincterochila baetica

Sphincterochila baetica
Apertural view of the shell of Sphincterochila baetica.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Sphincterochilidae
Genus: Sphincterochila
Species:
S. baetica
Binomial name
Sphincterochila baetica
(Rossmässler, 1854)

Sphincterochila baetica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in Spain, Morocco, and Algeria.[1]

Shell description

The shell is globose, solid, whitish ash-color. The shell has 5 whorls which are very slowly increasing, the upper ones carious-rugulose, the penultimate about as broad as the last. The last whorl is more or less angulated on the periphery, and rounded in front.[1]

The aperture is widely lunate, angulated exteriorly. The peristome is internally sublabiate.[1]

The width of the shell is 25 mm.[1]

  • Apical view of the shell of Sphincterochila baetica.
    Apical view of the shell of Sphincterochila baetica.
  • Basal view of the shell ofSphincterochila baetica.
    Basal view of the shell ofSphincterochila baetica.

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e Tryon G. W. (1887). Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. page 11.