Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Trissexodontidae Scientific name Suboestophora hispanica | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Helicoidea Genus Suboestophora Rank Species | |
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Similar Suboestophora, Trissexodontidae, Cape porcupine, Helicella, Utah prairie dog | ||
Suboestophora hispanica is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae within the Helicoidea.
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Suboestophora hispanica is the type species of the genus Suboestophora.
Distribution
This species is endemic to Spain. The type locality is Valencia, Spain.
Description
Suboestophora hispanica was originally described under the name Helicodonta hispanica by Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude in 1910.
Gude's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
References
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