Oxychilus mortilleti
Oxychilus mortilleti | |
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Four shells of Oxychilus mortilleti | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
Family: | Oxychilidae |
Subfamily: | Oxychilinae |
Genus: | Oxychilus |
Species: | O. mortilleti |
Binomial name | |
Oxychilus mortilleti (L. Pfeiffer, 1859)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
Helix Mortilleti Pfeiffer, 1859 |
Oxychilus mortilleti is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae.
The specific name mortilleti is in honor of French scientist Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821-1898).
Distribution
The type locality is Lombardia, northern Italy.[1]
This species is known to occur in:
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia only
References
- 1 2 Pfeiffer L. (1859). Monographia heliceorum viventium. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium huius familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum. Volumen quartum. pp. I-IX [= 1-9], 1-920. Lipsiae. page 101.
External links
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