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Opisthostoma goniostoma

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Species of gastropod

Opisthostoma goniostoma
Drawing of the shell of Opisthostoma goniostoma.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Opisthostoma
Species: O. goniostoma
Binomial name
Opisthostoma goniostoma

Opisthostoma goniostoma is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in Borneo.

References

  1. Menno Schilthuizen (2003) Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2003, 3:13 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-3-13
Taxon identifiers
Opisthostoma goniostoma


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