Sphincterochila prophetarum explained

Sphincterochila prophetarum is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae.

Distribution

The species occurs in Egypt (northeastern Egypt and Sinai Peninsula), southern Israel, Jordan, and in the coastal mountains of western Saudi Arabia.[1]

Shell description

The shell is perforate, depressed, solid, stridulate, cretaceous, white and with suture impressed. The shell has 4½ flattened or slightly convex whorls. The last whorl is very obsoletely angulated, rounded in front, shortly andsuddenly deflected.

The width of the shell is 16 mm.

References

This article incorporates public domain text from reference.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=4123 Species summary for Sphincterochila prophetarum
  2. [George Washington Tryon]