Oligospira skinneri

Oligospira skinneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Acavidae
Genus:	Oligospira
Species:	O. skinneri
Binomial name
	Oligospira skinneri; (Reeve, 1854)
Synonyms
	Acavus skinneriReeve, 1854

Last updated August 01, 2025

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. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. 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.

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[1] "Land Snails of Sri Lanka". Young Biologists' Association Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2016.

[2] Reeve, Lovell (1854). Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals. Vol. 7. London: Reeve Brothers. pp. 381–382.

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