Pleurodonte sloaneana

Pleurodonte sloaneana
Black-and-white photo: an apertural view of a shell of Pleurodonte sloaneana from Jamaica. Scale bar = 1 cm.
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: Pleurodontidae
Genus: Pleurodonte
Species: P. sloaneana
Binomial name
Pleurodonte sloaneana
(Shuttleworth in Pfeiffer, 1868)
Synonyms
  • Helix sloaneana
  • Dentellaria sloaneana
  • Helix (Lucerna) vendryesi Cockerell, 1892

Pleurodonte sloaneana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae. This species occurs in Jamaica.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 155(1): 117-161. doi:10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1

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