Sphincterochila cariosula | |
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Five views of a shell of Sphincterochila cariosula. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Sphincterochilidae |
Genus: | Sphincterochila |
Species: | S. cariosula |
Binomial name | |
Sphincterochila cariosula | |
Synonyms | |
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Sphincterochila cariosula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Sphincterochilidae. [2]
The indigenous distribution of the species is Algeria. [3] The species was introduced to Vélez-Málaga in southern Spain and to western Mallorca in historical times. [4]
The shell is subimperforate, carinate, globosely convex above, carious, somewhat flattened below, soiled white, with a tubercularly eroded filiform sutural carina. The shell has 5 somewhat flattened whorls. The upper margin of the aperture is subdeflected. [3] The width of the shell is 16–19 mm and the height is 11–15 mm. [4]
Sphincterochila cariosula occurs in scrublands and in semideserts. [4]
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