Oligospira polei is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Oligospira polei | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Informal group: | Sigmurethra |
Family: | Acavidae |
Genus: | Oligospira |
Species: | O. polei
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Binomial name | |
Oligospira polei (Collet, 1899)
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Synonyms | |
Acavus polei Breston, 1904 |
Description
editShell orange brown with a white shell lip. Juvenile has a yellowish shell. They are mostly ground dwellers.[1]
References
edit- ^ "Land Snails of Sri Lanka". Young Biologists' Association Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 November 2016.