Opisthostoma lituus

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

Opisthostoma lituus 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