Oligospira skinneri

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

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

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[]

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

External links[]

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[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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