Opisthostoma pulchellum

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Opisthostoma pulchellum
Opisthostoma pulchellum shell.png
Drawing of the shell of Opisthostoma pulchellum.
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Opisthostoma
Species:
O. pulchellum
Binomial name
Opisthostoma pulchellum

Opisthostoma pulchellum is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in Borneo. [1]

References

  1. Menno Schilthuizen (2003) Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2003, 3:13 doi : 10.1186/1471-2148-3-13