Chilostoma faustina

Chilostoma faustina is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails.

Chilostoma faustina
Chilostoma faustina shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Helicidae
Genus:
Chilostoma
Species:
C. faustina
Binomial name
Chilostoma faustina
Synonyms

Helicigona faustina Faustina faustina

Distribution

This species is known to occur in:

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).
  2. Balashov I. & Gural-Sverlova N. 2012. An annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs of Ukraine. Journal of Conchology. 41 (1): 91-109.


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