Kalidos mangokyanus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Helicarionidae |
Genus: | Kalidos |
Species: | K. mangokyanus |
Binomial name | |
Kalidos mangokyanus (Fischer P. & Salvat, 1965) | |
Kalidos mangokyanus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicarionidae.
This species occurs in Madagascar.
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