Oxychona maculata

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Oxychona maculata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Oxychona
Species:
O. maculata
Binomial name
Oxychona maculata
Salvador & Cavallari, 2013 [1]

Oxychona maculata is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bulimulidae.

Distribution

Oxychona maculata occurs in southern Bahia state, Brazil. It is only known from the municipalities of Ilhéus (the type locality) and Itapetinga. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Salvador, R. B.; Cavallari, D. C. (2013). "A new Oxychona species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicidae) from Bahia state, Brazil". Journal of Conchology. 41 (3): 315–318.