Megalobulimus ovatus

Megalobulimus ovatus
	Shell of Megalobulimus ovatus on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Acavoidea
Family:	Strophocheilidae
Subfamily:	Megalobuliminae
Genus:	Megalobulimus
Species:	M. ovatus
Binomial name
	Megalobulimus ovatus; (O. F. Muller)
Synonyms
	Strophocheilus ovatus (O. F. Muller); Bulimus ovatus (O. F. Muller);

Megalobulimus ovatus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Strophocheilidae.^[1]

Shells are oblong or turreted and can reach a length of about 15 centimetres (5.9 in).^[2]

This species is endemic to Brazil.^[3] ^[4]

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