Sphincterochila prophetarum is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Sphincterochilidae.
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| Drawing showing an apertural view of a shell of Sphincterochila prophetarum. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Sphincterochilidae |
| Genus: | Sphincterochila |
| Species: | S. prophetarum
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| Sphincterochila prophetarum (Bourguignat, 1852)[1]
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Helix Prophetarum Bourguignat, 1852 | |
Distribution
editThe species occurs in Egypt (northeastern Egypt and Sinai Peninsula), southern Israel, Jordan, and in the coastal mountains of western Saudi Arabia.[2]
Shell description
editThe 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.[3]
The width of the shell is 16 mm.[3]
References
editThis article incorporates public domain text from reference.[3]
- ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1852). Testacea novissima quae Cl. de Saulcy in itinere per Orientem annis 1850 et 1851, collegit. pp. [1], 5-31. Lutetiae. (Baillière).
- ^ Species summary for Sphincterochila prophetarum. AnimalBase, last modified 02-09-2008 by F. Welter Schultes, accessed 12 April 2009.
- ^ a b c George Washington Tryon, Jr. 1887. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. page 12.
Further reading
edit- Alona G., Shoreb L.S. & Steinberger Y. (2007). "Correlation between levels of sex hormones (progesterone, testosterone, and estrogen) and ecophysiological-behavior stages in two species of desert snails (Sphincterochila zonata and Sphincterochila prophetarum) in the Northern Negev Desert". General and Comparative Endocrinology 151(1): 122–127.
External links
edit- George Washington Tryon, Jr. 1887. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 3. Helicidae - Volume I. Plate 2, figure 49-50..