Mirus
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| Mirus | |
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| Shell of Mirus panos | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Pupilloidei |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Enidae |
| Genus: | Mirus Albers, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Bulimus cantorii Philippi, 1844 | |
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Mirus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Eninae of the family Enidae.[1]
(Original description in Latin) The shell of species in this genus is fissured-perforated (or narrowly umbilicate), it is subcylindrical, thin, and pellucid. It has 8 whorls; the body whorl is slightly ascending anteriorly (in front) and it equals 1/3 of the length of the shell
The columella is arched; the aperture is oval; the peristome (lip) is expanded. It is callous (thickened) internally, with the margins being subparallel and joined by a rather thick, dentate callus.[2]
