Sphincterochila prophetarum
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| Sphincterochila prophetarum | |
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| Drawing showing an apertural view of a shell of Sphincterochila prophetarum. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Sphincterochilidae |
| Genus: | Sphincterochila |
| Species: | S. prophetarum |
| Binomial name | |
| Sphincterochila prophetarum (Bourguignat, 1852)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Helix Prophetarum Bourguignat, 1852 | |
Sphincterochila prophetarum is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae.
The species occurs in Egypt (northeastern Egypt and Sinai Peninsula), southern Israel (Northern Negev), Jordan, and in the coastal mountains of western Saudi Arabia.[2][3]
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 and suddenly deflected.[4]
The width of the shell is 16 mm.[4]