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Name:
Common name:
smith’s snorkel cyclophorus
Synonym:
Rhiostoma smithi, (P. Bartsch, 1932)
Family / Genus / Species / Binom / Author:
Cyclophoridae → Rhiostoma → hainesi → Rhiostoma hainesi → L. Pfeiffer, 1862
Protection status:
Quality:
Location:
Koh Lao, Krabi Province / Southern Thailand
Size of plexiglas box:
Length: 4 cm
Width: 3,4 cm
Height: 3,1 cm
Size of the specimen:
Weight:
Interesting Southeast Asian land snail with a spiral operculum and a tubular structure on the last whorl of the shell. The name snorkel snail is derived from this appendix.
The installation of the zoological specimen in the plexiglass box was made in a German taxidermy studio.
