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Sphincterochila
Sign in to saveSphincterochila is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Sphincterochilidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilySphincterochilidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 387
- With media
- 177
- Family
- Sphincterochilidae
- Collections
- PRI, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- Algeria, France, Morocco, Tunisia, Palestinian Territory
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Sphincterochila is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Sphincterochilidae.
Sphincterochila is the type genus of the family Sphincterochilidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sphincterochila” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.