Sphincterochila
Sphincterochila is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Sphincterochilidae.
Sphincterochila is the type genus of the family Sphincterochilidae.
Species in the genus Sphincterochila are arid-adapted.Species
Species in the genus Sphincterochila include:
Subgenus Albea Pallary, 1910
- Sphincterochila candidissima
- Sphincterochila tunetana
Subgenus Sphincterochila Ancey, 1887 sensu stricto - synonym: subgenus Rima Pallary, 1910
- Sphincterochila boissieri - type species
- Sphincterochila cariosa -
Subgenus ?
- Sphincterochila aharonii
- Sphincterochila baetica
- Sphincterochila cariosula
- Sphincterochila chionudiscus
- Sphincterochila corrugata Pallary, 1917
- Sphincterochila debeauxi
- * Sphincterochila debeauxi elevata Pallary, 1910
- Sphincterochila fimbriata
- Sphincterochila insularis
- Sphincterochila maroccana Pallary, 1917
- * Sphincterochila maroccana conica Pallary, 1926
- * Sphincterochila maroccana depressa Pallary, 1926
- * Sphincterochila maroccana major Pallary, 1926
- * Sphincterochila maroccana minor Pallary, 1926
- * Sphincterochila maroccana tananensis Pallary, 1917
- Sphincterochila marteli
- Sphincterochila mayrani
- * Sphincterochila mayrani turrita
- Sphincterochila pagodula
- * Sphincterochila pagodula umbilicata
- Sphincterochila pardoi Llabador, 1950
- Sphincterochila prophetarum
- Sphincterochila roumensiana
- Sphincterochila zonata - a synonym of Sphincterochila boissieri
- * Sphincterochila zonata filia - , ,
Comparison of apertural views of shells of five Sphincterochila species:
