Siciliaria grohmanniana

Siciliaria grohmanniana
Detail of apertural view of a shell of Siciliaria grohmanniana.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Genus: Siciliaria
Species:
S. grohmanniana
Binomial name
Siciliaria grohmanniana

Siciliaria grohmanniana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Siciliaria grohmanniana is the type species of the genus Siciliaria.

Apertural view of the shell of Siciliaria grohmanniana
Lateral (abapartural) view of the shell of Siciliaria grohmanniana

Distribution

This species occurs in Sicily.

References

  1. ^ Rossmässler E. A. 1835-1837. Iconographie der Land- und Süßwasser-Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten. Erster Band. pp. Heft 1: [1], I-VI [= 1-6], 1-132, [1-2], Heft 2: [1-2], 1-26, Heft 3: [1-3], 1-33, Heft 4: [1-3], 1-27, Heft 5-6: [1-3], 1-70, Taf. 1-30. Dresden, Leipzig. (Arnold).