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Sphincterochila baetica

Sphincterochila baetica
Sphincterochila baetica shell.jpg
Apertural view of the shell of Sphincterochila baetica.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Sphincterochilidae
Subfamily: Sphincterochilinae
Genus: Sphincterochila
Species: S. baetica
Binomial name
Sphincterochila baetica
(Rossmässler, 1854)

Sphincterochila baetica is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae.

This species occurs in Spain, Morocco, and Algeria.

The shell is globose, solid, whitish ash-color. The shell has 5 whorls which are very slowly increasing, the upper ones carious-rugulose, the penultimate about as broad as the last. The last whorl is more or less angulated on the periphery, and rounded in front.

The aperture is widely lunate, angulated exteriorly. The peristome is internally sublabiate.

The width of the shell is 25 mm.

Apical view of the shell of Sphincterochila baetica.

Basal view of the shell ofSphincterochila baetica.

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