Oxychilus mortilleti
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| Oxychilus mortilleti | |
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| Four shells of Oxychilus mortilleti | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Oxychilidae |
| Genus: | Oxychilus |
| Species: | O. mortilleti |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxychilus mortilleti (L. Pfeiffer, 1859)[1] | |
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Helix Mortilleti Pfeiffer, 1859 | |
Oxychilus mortilleti is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae.
The specific name mortilleti is in honor of French scientist Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821–1898).
