| Gittenbergeria turriplana | |
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| shells of Gittenbergeria turriplana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Trissexodontidae |
| Genus: | Gittenbergeria |
| Species: | G. turriplana |
| Binomial name | |
| Gittenbergeria turriplana (Morelet, 1845)[2] |
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Gittenbergeria turriplana of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Trissexodontidae.[3][4][5]
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This species is endemic to Algarve, southern Portugal.[6] It is frequent species in Algarve and locally very common.[6]
The shell is brown with a characterictic microsculpture, depressed with a strong keel.[6] The first whorls are almost flat.[6] The aperture is narrow.[6] Margin reflected and turned outward.[6] There are two teeth on the lower edge corresponding to 2 conspicuous depressions on the outer shell.[6] The umbilicus is open and excentric.[6]
The width of the shell is 12-14 mm.[6] The height of the shell is 5-6 mm.[6]
Animal is almost black with a lighter foot, upper tentacles very long.[6]
It lives in low altitudes on calcareous substrate, close to the coast.[6] It is frequent at old walls and in old gardens and parks in cities, also in shrublands and cultivated areas.[6]
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