Tolgachloritis campbelli
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| Tolgachloritis campbelli | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Tolgachloritis |
| Species: | T. campbelli |
| Binomial name | |
| Tolgachloritis campbelli (Iredale, 1938) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Mussonena campbelli Iredale, 1938) | |
Tolgachloritis campbelli, the Chillagoe spiny snail,[3] is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae.[2] The species was first described in 1938 as Mussonena campbelli by Tom Iredale,[4][5] and was transferred to the genus, Tolgachloritis, in 2010 by John Stanisic and others.[4][6]
The species is restricted to Queensland (Australia),[4] and the type specimen (AM C54102) was collected from the Chillagoe Caves, in Queensland.[4] This snail is covered in hair-like, spiny scales.[3]
