Megalobulimus ovatus

Megalobulimus ovatus
Shell of Megalobulimus ovatus on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Acavoidea
Family: Strophocheilidae
Subfamily: Megalobuliminae
Genus: Megalobulimus
Species: M. ovatus
Binomial name
Megalobulimus ovatus
(O. F. Muller)
Synonyms
  • Strophocheilus ovatus (O. F. Muller)
  • Bulimus ovatus (O. F. Muller)

Megalobulimus ovatus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Strophocheilidae. [1]

Shells are oblong or turreted and can reach a length of about 15 centimetres (5.9 in).[2]

This species is endemic to Brazil. [3] [4]

References

  1. ↑ Biolib
  2. ↑ American-Cyclopaedia
  3. ↑ MCZ
  4. ↑ WMSDB

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