Marmorana platychela
| Marmorana platychela | |
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| A live individual of Marmorana platychela sicana | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | M. platychela
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| Marmorana platychela (Menke, 1830)
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Marmorana platychela is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae.
Distribution
This species lives in north-western Sicily (Italy).[1] It is confined to limestone rock faces.
Description
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References
- ^ Fiorentino V, Manganelli G, Giusti F (2008). "Multiple scale patterns of shell and anatomy variability in land snails: the case of the Sicilian Marmorana (Gastropoda: Pulmonata, Helicidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93: 359–370. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00940.x. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05.
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