Oligospira skinneri

Oligospira skinneri is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Oligospira skinneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Acavoidea
Family:
Acavidae
Genus:
Oligospira
Species:
O. skinneri
Binomial name
Oligospira skinneri
(Reeve, 1854)
Synonyms

Acavus skinneri Reeve, 1854

Description

Shell is shiny light brown to rosy in color with some small white spots on it. Lip of the shell is meat red.[1] It is named after Major Skinner.[2]

References
  1. "Land Snails of Sri Lanka". Young Biologists' Association Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  2. Reeve, Lovell (1854). Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals. Vol. 7. London: Reeve Brothers. pp. 381–382.


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