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Discula rotula

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Discula rotula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Discula
Species:
D. rotula
Binomial name
Discula rotula
(R. T. Lowe, 1831)

Discula rotula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Geomitridae.

Habitat

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This species is endemic to the Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal, where it can be found under rocks.

Description

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The shell of this snail has a discoid shape with small transversal grooves and some granules scattered along the sutures. This brownish-yellow shell is somewhat concave at its base. The oblique aperture has an oval shape. The shell is characteristic by its horizontal stripe on the last body whorl and two stripes at its base.

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