Xeroplexa scabiosula | |
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Apertural view of the shell of Xeroplexa scabiosula | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Geomitridae |
Genus: | Xeroplexa |
Species: | X. scabiosula
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Binomial name | |
Xeroplexa scabiosula (
Locard, 1899)
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Synonyms | |
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Xeroplexa scabiosula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. [1] [2]
Although this species was named by Locard (1899), it was treated as synonym of X. belemensis by Gittenberger (1993). [3] [4]
Shells very similar to those of X. arrabidensis and X. belemensis, with a relatively large umbilicus, but shell breadth smaller at maturity and ribs on dorsal surface of body whorl less developed (absent or very weak). [3]
Endemic to Portugal (western Iberian Peninsula), where restricted to limestone districts of central Algarve.
Xeroplexa scabiosula | |
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Apertural view of the shell of Xeroplexa scabiosula | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Geomitridae |
Genus: | Xeroplexa |
Species: | X. scabiosula
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Binomial name | |
Xeroplexa scabiosula (
Locard, 1899)
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Synonyms | |
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Xeroplexa scabiosula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae. [1] [2]
Although this species was named by Locard (1899), it was treated as synonym of X. belemensis by Gittenberger (1993). [3] [4]
Shells very similar to those of X. arrabidensis and X. belemensis, with a relatively large umbilicus, but shell breadth smaller at maturity and ribs on dorsal surface of body whorl less developed (absent or very weak). [3]
Endemic to Portugal (western Iberian Peninsula), where restricted to limestone districts of central Algarve.