Siciliaria grohmanniana

Species of gastropod

Siciliaria grohmanniana
Detail of apertural view of a shell of Siciliaria grohmanniana.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Clausilioidea
Family:
Clausiliidae
Genus:
Siciliaria
Species:
S. grohmanniana
Binomial name
Siciliaria grohmanniana
(Rossmässler, 1836)[1]

Siciliaria grohmanniana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Siciliaria grohmanniana is the type species of the genus Siciliaria.

Apertural view of the shell of Siciliaria grohmanniana
Lateral (abapartural) view of the shell of Siciliaria grohmanniana

Distribution

This species occurs in Sicily.

References

  1. ^ Rossmässler E. A. 1835-1837. Iconographie der Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten. Erster Band. pp. Heft 1: [1], I-VI [= 1-6], 1-132, [1-2], Heft 2: [1-2], 1-26, Heft 3: [1-3], 1-33, Heft 4: [1-3], 1-27, Heft 5-6: [1-3], 1-70, Taf. 1-30. Dresden, Leipzig. (Arnold).
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Taxon identifiers
Siciliaria grohmanniana


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