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Strophocheilidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Stylommatophora › Strophocheilidae

Megalobulimus oblongus (O.F.Müller, 1774)

Megalobulimus oblongus is an air-breathing land snail species in the family Strophocheilidae found across parts of South America and the Caribbean.

Megalobulimus popelairianus (Nyst, 1845)

Megalobulimus popelairianus is a large land snail with a characteristic large solid shell found in Ecuador and Brazil.

Megalobulimus dryades Fontenelle, Simone & Cavallari, 2021

Megalobulimus dryades is a recently described air-breathing land snail endemic to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, previously misidentified as another snail species.

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