Sphincterochila boissieri
| Sphincterochila boissieri | |
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| Drawing of the shell of Sphincterochila boissieri. | |
| 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 |
| Subgenus: | Sphincterochila |
| Species: | S. boissieri |
| Binomial name | |
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Sphincterochila boissieri (Charpentier, 1847) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Helix Boissieri Charpentier, 1847 |
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Helix Boissieri Charpentier, 1847
Sphincterochila zonata (Bourguignat, 1853)
Sphincterochila boissieri is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae. This species lives in deserts in Israel and Egypt.
Sphincterochila boissieri is the type species of the genus Sphincterochila. The type species was subsequently designated by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1895. It is named after botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier.
Sphincterochila boissieri lives in the Negev desert (Israel), and the Sinai desert in the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt).
The shell of Sphincterochila boissieri is covered perforate, thick, irregularly striated, somewhat effulgent, cretaceous and colored white. It has 5 slightly convex whorls. The last whorl is deflected anteriorly. The aperture has a thick lip, projecting internally above in two thick, subconfluent tubercles.
The average width of the shell is 25 mm.
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