Strobilops labyrinthicus
Appearance
Strobilops labyrinthicus | |
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The shell of Strobilops labyrinthicus | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Species: | S. labyrinthicus
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Binomial name | |
Strobilops labyrinthicus (Say, 1817)
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Strobilops labyrinthica |
Strobilops labyrinthicus, common name the maze pinecone, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Strobilopsidae.
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Distribution
This species of land snail occurs in the Eastern United States, from Texas northward to British America, Manitoba (Carberry), Ontario (Moose Factory) in Canada.[1]
References
- ^ Dall W. H.. 1905. Alaska, Volume XIII, Land and Fresh Water Mollusks. New York, Daubleday, Page & Complany, pages 1-157, page 27.
- ^ Branson B. A. (1961). "The Recent Gastropoda of Oklahoma, III. Terrestrial Species: Pupillidae, Carychiidae, Strobilopsidae and Oligyridae". Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science for 1960: 41: 45-69. PDF.
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