Calocochlia pan

Calocochlia pan
Five views of a shell of Calocochlia pan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Metazoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Bradybaenidae
Genus: Calocochlia
Species: C. pan
Binomial name
Calocochlia pan
Broderip, 1841

Calocochlia pan is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae. This species is very common in the Philippines. The shell is between 41 to 47 millimeters long with brown spiral bands and a cream-colored background. [1]

References

  1. ABBOTT, R.T., 1989: Compendium of landshells: a colour guide to more than 2,000 of the World’s Terrestrial Shells. American Malacologists Inc., Burlington, USA. pp.171. ISBN 0915826232

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