Oxychilus mortilleti is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae.
| Oxychilus mortilleti | |
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| Four shells of Oxychilus mortilleti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Oxychilidae |
| Genus: | Oxychilus |
| Species: | O. mortilleti
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| Binomial name | |
| Oxychilus mortilleti (L. Pfeiffer, 1859)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Helix Mortilleti Pfeiffer, 1859 | |
The specific name mortilleti is in honor of French scientist Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821–1898).
Distribution edit
The type locality is Lombardia, northern Italy.[1]
This species is known to occur in:
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia only
References edit
- ^ 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.
External links edit
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