Coptocheilus
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| Coptocheilus | |
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| Coptocheilus anostomus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
| Family: | Pupinidae |
| Genus: | Coptocheilus Gould, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Cyclostoma altum G. B. Sowerby I, 1842 | |
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Coptocheilus is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pupinellinae of the family Pupinidae.[1]
(Original description in Latin) The acute shell is chrysalis-shaped and narrowly perforate. It displays a chestnut-brown color. The aperture appears almost disjoint from the spire and features a more or less double peristome, where the inner lamella is incised posteriorly. The operculum is horny, multispiral, circular, and flattened. [2]
