Oligospira skinneri
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Oligospira skinneri | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | |
Family: | |
Genus: | |
Species: | O. skinneri
|
Binomial name | |
Oligospira skinneri (Reeve, 1854)
| |
Synonyms | |
Acavus skinneri Reeve, 1854 |
Oligospira skinneri is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Description
Shell is shiny light brown to rosy in color with some small white spots on it. Lip of the shell is meat red.[1] It is named after Major Skinner.[2]
References
- ^ "Land Snails of Sri Lanka". Young Biologists' Association Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ^ Reeve, Lovell (1854). Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals. Vol. 7. London: Reeve Brothers. pp. 381–382.
External links
Error: "Q28432182" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.