Embertoniphanta farafanga
Appearance
Embertoniphanta farafanga | |
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A view of the left side of a live Embertoniphanta farafanga | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Informal group: | Sigmurethra |
Family: | Acavidae |
Genus: | Embertoniphanta |
Species: | E. farafanga
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Binomial name | |
Embertoniphanta farafanga (H. Adams, 1875)
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Synonyms | |
Helicophanta farafanga |
Embertoniphanta farafanga (syn. Helicophanta farafanga) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusk in the family Acavidae. The species occurs in Madagascar.
Embertoniphanta farafanga is a burrower.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Emberton K. C. (1994). "Morphology and aestivation behaviour in some Madagascan acavid land snails". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 53(2): 175-187. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1994.tb01008.x.