Oligospira skinneri explained

Oligospira skinneri is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Description

Shell is shiny light brown to rosy in color with some small white spots on it. Lip of the shell is meat red.[1] It is named after Major Skinner.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Land Snails of Sri Lanka . Young Biologists' Association Sri Lanka . 2 November 2016.
  2. Book: Reeve, Lovell. Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals. Reeve Brothers. 1854. 7. London. 381–382.

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