| Sphincterochila baetica | |
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| Apertural view of the shell of Sphincterochila baetica. | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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.
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.
The aperture is widely lunate, angulated exteriorly. The peristome is internally sublabiate.
The width of the shell is 25 mm.
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Apical view of the shell of Sphincterochila baetica.
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Basal view of the shell ofSphincterochila baetica.
References
This article incorporates public domain text from reference.
- ^ Tryon G. W. (1887). Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. page 11.
External links
- http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=2672
- George Washington Tryon, Jr. 1887. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. Plate 2, figure 36–37..
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| Sphincterochila baetica | |