Oxychilus mortilleti

Oxychilus mortilleti is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae.

Oxychilus mortilleti
Four shells of Oxychilus mortilleti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Family:
Subfamily:
Oxychilinae
Genus:
Species:
O. mortilleti
Binomial name
Oxychilus mortilleti
Synonyms

Helix Mortilleti Pfeiffer, 1859

The specific name mortilleti is in honor of French scientist Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821-1898).

Distribution

The type locality is Lombardia, northern Italy.[1]

This species is known to occur in:

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References

  1. Pfeiffer L. (1859). Monographia heliceorum viventium. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium huius familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum. Volumen quartum. pp. I-IX [= 1-9], 1-920. Lipsiae. page 101.

"Species summary for Oxychilus mortilleti". AnimalBase.

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