Plectostoma everetti

Plectostoma everetti
Drawing of the shell of Plectostoma everetti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Plectostoma
Species:
P. everetti
Binomial name
Plectostoma everetti
(E. A. Smith, 1893)
Synonyms[1]
  • Opisthostoma (Plectostoma) everetti E. A. Smith, 1893
  • Opisthostoma everetti E. A. Smith, 1893

Plectostoma everetti is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Diplommatinidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in Borneo.[2]

References

  1. ^ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2025). "Plectostoma everetti (E. A. Smith, 1893)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  2. ^ Menno Schilthuizen. (2003) Sexual selection on land snail shell ornamentation: a hypothesis that may explain shell diversity. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2003, 3:13 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-3-13
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