Marmorana platychela

Marmorana platychela
Marmorana platychela
A live individual of Marmorana platychela
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: Helicidae
Genus: Marmorana
Species: M. platychela
Binomial name
Marmorana platychela
(Menke, 1830)

Marmorana platychela is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae.

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Distribution

This species lives in north-western Sicilia (Italy).[1] It is confined to limestone rock faces.

Description

Shells of Marmorana platychela.
Globular forms from Monte Pellegrino.

References

  1. ^ Fiorentino V, Manganelli G, Giusti F (2008). "Multiple scale patterns of shell and anatomy variability in land snails: the case of the Sicilian Marmorana (Gastropoda: Pulmonata, Helicidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 2008; 93: 359–370 93: 359. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00940.x. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119394173/abstract. 

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