Oxychilus mortilleti is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae.

Oxychilus mortilleti
Four shells of Oxychilus mortilleti
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Oxychilidae
Genus: Oxychilus
Species:
O. mortilleti
Binomial name
Oxychilus mortilleti
Synonyms

Helix Mortilleti Pfeiffer, 1859

The specific name mortilleti is in honor of French scientist Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821–1898).

Distribution

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The type locality is Lombardia, northern Italy.[1]

This species is known to occur in:

References

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  1. ^ a b Pfeiffer L. (1859). Monographia heliceorum viventium. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium huius familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum. Volumen quartum. pp. I-IX [= 1-9], 1–920. Lipsiae. page 101.
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