Opisthostoma mirabile
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| Drawing of the shell of Opisthostoma mirabile. | |
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| Species: | O. mirabile
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| Opisthostoma mirabile E.A. Smith, 1893
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Opisthostoma mirabile is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.
Distribution
It is endemic to Malaysia.[1] It lives in Borneo.[2]
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Schilthuizen, M. & Vermeulen, J. 2004. Opisthostoma mirabile. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 07 August 2007.
- ^ Menno Schilthuizen (2003) Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2003, 3:13 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-3-13
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