Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Helicoidea Subfamily Sphincterochilinae Scientific name Sphincterochila cariosula Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Family Sphincterochilidae Genus Sphincterochila Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Sphincterochila baetica, Sphincterochila, Sphincterochila candidissima, Pseudotachea splendida, Oestophora | ||
Sphincterochila cariosula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae.
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Distribution
The indigenous distribution of the species is Algeria. The species was introduced to Vélez-Málaga in southern Spain and to western Mallorca in historical times.
Shell description
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. The width of the shell is 16–19 mm and the height is 11–15 mm.
Habitat
Sphincterochila cariosula occurs in scrublands and in semideserts.
References
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