Phoenicobius aratus

Phoenicobius aratus
Shells of Phoenicobius aratus 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: Helicoidea
Family: Bradybaenidae
Subfamily: Helicostylinae
Genus: Phoenicobius
Species: P. aratus
Binomial name
Phoenicobius aratus
Sowerby, 1841

Phoenicobius aratus is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae. [1]

This species can be found in the Philippines. Shells can reach a length of about 45 millimetres (1.8 in).[2]

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