Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Sphincterochilidae Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Helicoidea Subfamily Sphincterochilinae | |
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Scientific name Sphincterochila prophetarum Similar Sphincterochila, Sphincterochila boissieri, Sphincterochila candidissima | ||
Sphincterochila prophetarum is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae.
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Distribution
The species occurs in Egypt (northeastern Egypt and Sinai Peninsula), southern Israel, Jordan, coastal mountains in western Saudi Arabia.
Shell description
The shell is covered perforate, depressed, solid, striulate, 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.
The width of the shell is 16 mm.
References
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