Opisthostoma lituus

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

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

Distribution

This species occurs in Borneo.[1]

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gollark: People ARE NOT COOPERATIVE at large scales.
gollark: It's *socially* far away, generally.
gollark: Nope!
gollark: No, because humans just ignore far away stuff.

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


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