Sphincterochila prophetarum

Sphincterochila prophetarum
Drawing showing an apertural view of a shell of Sphincterochila prophetarum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Sphincterochilidae
Genus:	Sphincterochila
Species:	S. prophetarum
Binomial name
Sphincterochila prophetarum (Bourguignat, 1852) [1]
Synonyms
Helix Prophetarum Bourguignat, 1852

Sphincterochila prophetarum is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae.

Distribution

The species occurs in Egypt (northeastern Egypt and Sinai Peninsula), southern Israel (Northern Negev), Jordan, and in the coastal mountains of western Saudi Arabia. ^{[2] [3]}

Shell description

The shell is perforate, depressed, solid, stridulate, cretaceous, white and with suture impressed. The shell has 4½ flattened or slightly convex whorls. The last whorl is very obsoletely angulated, rounded in front, shortly and suddenly deflected. ^[4]

The width of the shell is 16 mm. ^[4]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference. ^[4]

1. Bourguignat J. R. (1852). Testacea novissima quae Cl. de Saulcy in itinere per Orientem annis 1850 et 1851, collegit. pp. [1], 5-31. Lutetiae. (Baillière).
2. Species summary for Sphincterochila prophetarum. AnimalBase, last modified 02-09-2008 by F. Welter Schultes, accessed 12 April 2009.
3. Steinberger, Yosef; Grossman, Shlomo; Dubinsky, Zvy (August 1981). "Some aspects of the ecology of the desert snail Sphincterochila prophetarum in relation to energy and water flow". Oecologia. 50 (1): 103–108. doi:10.1007/BF00378801. ISSN   1432-1939. PMID   28310069.
4. George Washington Tryon, Jr. 1887. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. page 12.

Further reading

• Alona G., Shoreb L.S. & Steinberger Y. (2007). "Correlation between levels of sex hormones (progesterone, testosterone, and estrogen) and ecophysiological-behavior stages in two species of desert snails (Sphincterochila zonata and Sphincterochila prophetarum) in the Northern Negev Desert". General and Comparative Endocrinology 151(1): 122–127.

External links

• George Washington Tryon, Jr. 1887. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. Plate 2, figure 49-50..