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Sphincterochila prophetarum

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Sphincterochila prophetarum
Drawing showing an apertural view of a shell of Sphincterochila prophetarum.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Sphincterochilidae
Genus: Sphincterochila
Species:
S. prophetarum
Binomial name
Sphincterochila prophetarum
Synonyms

Helix Prophetarum Bourguignat, 1852

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

Distribution

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The species occurs in Egypt (northeastern Egypt and Sinai Peninsula), southern Israel, Jordan, and in the coastal mountains of western Saudi Arabia.[2]

Shell description

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The shell is perforate, depressed, solid, stridulate, cretaceous, white and with suture impressed. The shell has 4½ flattened or slightly convex whorls. The last whorl is very obsoletely angulated, rounded in front, shortly and suddenly deflected.[3]

The width of the shell is 16 mm.[3]

References

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This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[3]

  1. ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1852). Testacea novissima quae Cl. de Saulcy in itinere per Orientem annis 1850 et 1851, collegit. pp. [1], 5-31. Lutetiae. (Baillière).
  2. ^ Species summary for Sphincterochila prophetarum. AnimalBase, last modified 02-09-2008 by F. Welter Schultes, accessed 12 April 2009.
  3. ^ a b c George Washington Tryon, Jr. 1887. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. page 12.

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