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Plectopylis bensoni

Plectopylis bensoni
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.389102 - Plectopylis bensoni Gude, 1914 - Plectopylidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Plectopylis bensoni shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Plectopyloidea
Family: Plectopylidae
Genus: Plectopylis
Species: P. bensoni
Binomial name
Plectopylis bensoni
(Gude, 1914)
Synonyms

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Plectopylis bensoni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Plectopylidae.

Plectopylis bensoni is the type species of the genus Plectopylis.

The specific name bensoni is in honour of malacologist William Henry Benson.


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