Opisthostoma everettii

Opisthostoma everettii
Opisthostoma everettii
Drawing of the shell of Opisthostoma everettii.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Opisthostoma
Subgenus: Plectostoma
Species: O. everettii
Binomial name
Opisthostoma everettii

Opisthostoma everettii is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.

Distribution

References

  1. ^ Menno Schilthuizen. (2003) Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2003, 3:13doi:10.1186/1471-2148-3-13