Staffordia staffordi

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Staffordia staffordi
A drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Staffordia staffordi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Staffordiidae
Genus: Staffordia
Species:
S. staffordi
Binomial name
Staffordia staffordi

Staffordia staffordi is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Staffordiidae.

The specific name staffordi as well as generic name Staffordia is in honor of Brigadier-General Stafford,[who?] who was in command of the punitive force which entered the Dafla Hills for the first time in the winter of 1874-1875.[1]

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