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Opisthostoma hosei

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Species of gastropod

Opisthostoma hosei
Drawing of the shell of Opisthostoma hosei.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Opisthostoma
Subgenus: Plectostoma
Species: O. hosei
Binomial name
Opisthostoma hosei

Opisthostoma hosei 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 hosei


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