Megalobulimus albus

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Megalobulimus albus
Shell of Megalobulimus albus (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Strophocheilidae
Genus: Megalobulimus
Species:
M. albus
Binomial name
Megalobulimus albus
(Bland & W. G. Binney, 1872)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bulimus oblongus var. albolabiata E. A. Smith, 1895
  • Bulimus oblongus var. albus Bland & W. G. Binney, 1872 (basionym)
  • Megalobulimus oblongus var. tobagoensis (Pilsbry, 1895)
  • Strophocheilus (Megalobulimus) oblongus albus (Bland & W. G. Binney, 1872)
  • Strophocheilus oblongus var. tobagoensis Pilsbry, 1895

Megalobulimus albus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Strophocheilidae.[2]

The shell is as large as Megalobulimus oblongus (O. F. Müller, 1774) but is pure white, with a rose-pink lip.[3]

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