Sphincterochila prophetarum | |
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Drawing showing an apertural view of a shell of Sphincterochila prophetarum. | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Sphincterochilidae |
Genus: | Sphincterochila |
Species: | S. prophetarum
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Binomial name | |
Sphincterochila prophetarum (
Bourguignat, 1852)
[1]
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Synonyms | |
Helix Prophetarum Bourguignat, 1852 |
Sphincterochila prophetarum is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae.
The species occurs in Egypt (northeastern Egypt and Sinai Peninsula), southern Israel, Jordan, and in the coastal mountains of western Saudi Arabia. [2]
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. [3]
The width of the shell is 16 mm. [3]
This article incorporates public domain text from reference. [3]